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| Author(s): |
Tatiane Batista Rocha Francisco
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2009-03-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Marco Henrique Terra;
Adriano Almeida Gonçalves Siqueira;
Denis Fernando Wolf
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| Advisor: | Marco Henrique Terra |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation proposes a study on the automatic control of dynamic systems to the problem of coordination of mobile robots. The coordinated motions are performed with the robots following a leader, and any robot of the formation can assume the leadership randomly. The robots exchange informations according to a pre-specified communication directed graph (digraph). Stable motions are generated by a decentralized control law based on the robots coordinates. In addition, the nonlinear dynamic equations of the robots are described in state-space form where the parameters matrices depend on the angular velocities of the wheels. This representation, known as Quasi-Linear Parameter Varying (Quasi-LPV), is useful for control designs based on nonlinear H \'INFINITE\' approaches. To ensure the stability formation when there is alternation of leader or one of the robots is removed, we made a robust control and fault tolerant control for a group of wheeled mobile robots (WMRs). The robust approach is based on state feedback nonlinear H \'INFINITE\' control and output feedback nonlinear H \'INFINITE\' control. The fault tolerant approach is based on output feedback H \'INFINITE\' control of Markovian jump linear systems to ensure stability of the formation when one of the robots is lost during the coordinated motion. Results in simulation are presented for the controllers used. (AU) | |