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Traction control on loose soil for a redundantly actuated mobile robot

  • Zhenwu Lei*
  • , Pingyuan Cui
  • , Hehua Ju
  • , Xingwen Peng
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing University of Technology
  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel traction control scheme for a mobile robot with six independent driven wheels on loose soil is presented. First, a robust model-based slide mode controller is designed to estimate the traction force F x , F y and steering moment M z for executing a desired motion of the robot body. Because of actuation redundancy, the degree of freedom of task space is lower than the number of wheel drive variables, the paper uses an improved pseudo-inverse matrix to compute the tractive forces of the redundant drive wheels. In view of each wheel's slip behavior on loose soil, a slip compensation term is developed to correct the output of slide mode controller. The simulations show clearly the advantage of the traction control versus traditional kinematic control.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - First International Conference, ICIRA 2008, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1155-1164
Number of pages10
EditionPART 1
ISBN (Print)3540885129, 9783540885122
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2008 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 15 Oct 200817 Oct 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume5314 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2008
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period15/10/0817/10/08

Keywords

  • Force distribution
  • Traction control
  • Wheeled mobile robot

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