Chatter-Free Distributed Control for Multi-agent Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robot

Authors

  • Abdullah Y. Tameem Aerospace Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Belkacem Kada Aerospace Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Ahmed A. Alzubairi Aerospace Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Keywords:

Formation Control, Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robot, Multi-agent Systems

Abstract

This paper proposes to design a chatter-free distributed control for multiagent nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot systems employing terminal exponential functions with graph theory. The terminal tracking criteria are estimated using the Lyapunov approach. The development of distributed control for nonholonomic multiagent wheeled robot systems is defined in the paper along with consensus tracking for undirected fixed/switched topologies. Numerical simulations have been done in order to assess the efficacy and efficiency of the proposed distributed control method in multiple scenarios.

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2022-09-10

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Abdullah Y. Tameem, Belkacem Kada, & Ahmed A. Alzubairi. (2022). Chatter-Free Distributed Control for Multi-agent Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robot. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 63(2), 223–236. Retrieved from https://www.gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/14541

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