UKF based estimation and tracking control of nonholonomic mobile robots with slipping

A kinematic model of tracked vehicles is established in this paper, in which both longitudinal and lateral slipping is considered and processed as three time-varying parameters. Unscented Kalman filter is then introduced to real time estimate the pose and slipping parameters jointly. A stable tracking control law for this nonholonomic system is proposed and the asymptotic stability is guaranteed by Lyapunov theory. Simulation results show the efficiency and robustness of the proposed method.

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