Adaptive Trajectory Tracking Control of Skid-Steered Mobile Robots

Skid-steered mobile robots have been widely used for terrain exploration and navigation. In this paper, we present an adaptive trajectory control design for a skid-steered wheeled mobile robot. Kinematic and dynamic modeling of the robot is first presented. A pseudo-static friction model is used to capture the interaction between the wheels and the ground. An adaptive control algorithm is designed to simultaneously estimate the wheel/ground contact friction information and control the mobile robot to follow a desired trajectory. A Lyapunov-based convergence analysis of the controller and the estimation of the friction model parameter are presented. Simulation and preliminary experimental results based on a four-wheel robot prototype are demonstrated for the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed modeling and control scheme

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