Robust model predictive tracking control for the wheeled mobile robot with boundary uncertain based on linear matrix inequalities

Abstract

Abstract In this study, a robust model predictive controller is designed for the trajectory tracking problem of non‐holonomic constrained wheeled mobile robot based on an elliptic invariant set approach. The controller is based on a time‐varying error model of robot kinematics and uses linear matrix inequalities to solve the robust tracking problem taking uncertainties into account. The uncertainties are modelled by linear fractional transform form to contain both parameter perturbations and external disturbances. The control strategy consists of a feedforward term that drives the centre of the ellipse to the reference point and a feedback term that converges the uncertain system state error to the equilibrium point. The strategy stabilises the nominal system and ensures that all states of the uncertain system remain within the ellipsoid at each step, thus achieving robust stability of the uncertain system. Finally, the robustness of the algorithm and its resistance to disturbances are verified by simulation and experiment.

Keywords

• mobile robots
• robot control
• robot kinematics
• robustness