Title
A multisteering trailer system: conversion into chained form using dynamic feedback
Abstract
This paper examines the kinematic model of an autonomous mobile robot system consisting of a chain of steerable cars and passive trailers, linked together with rigid bars. The state space and kinematic equations of the system are defined, and it is shown how these kinematic equations may be converted into a multiinput chained form. The advantages of the chained form are that many methods are available for the open-loop steering of such systems as well as for point-stabilization; some of these methods are discussed here. Dynamic state feedback is used to convert the system to this multiinput chained form. It is shown how the dynamic state feedback that is used in this paper corresponds to adding, in front of the steerable cars, a chain of virtual axles which diverges from the original chain of trailers. Two different example systems are also presented, along with simulation results for a parallel-parking maneuver
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1109/70.478428
Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
feedback,mobile robots,robot dynamics,robot kinematics,state-space methods,autonomous mobile robot system,chained form,dynamic state feedback,kinematic equations,kinematic model,multiinput chained form,multisteering trailer system,open-loop steering,parallel-parking maneuver,passive trailers,point-stabilization,state-space equations,steerable cars,virtual axles
Kinematics,Control theory,Robot kinematics,Control engineering,Artificial intelligence,Autonomous system (mathematics),Axle,State space,Robotics,Trailer,Mathematics,Mobile robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
6
1042-296X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.65
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. Tilbury119840.69
Ole Jakob Sørdalen29424.13
Bushnell, L.3201.65
Shankar Sastry4119771291.58