Hybrid Formation Control for Non-Holonomic Wheeled Mobile Robots

TOIBERO, J. M.; FLAVIO ROBERTI; CARELLI, R.; FIORINI, P.

Jeju

Conferencia; IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics; 2007

This paper presents a hybrid formation controller approach for non-holonomic mobile robots. This approach is based on the stable switching between a leader-following formation controller and an orientation controller.  The switching attempts to maintain low values of formation errors during specific leader movements that otherwise will produce a significant increment on such errors. Experimental results on commercial unicycle-like mobile robots are provided to show the feasibility and performance of the proposed control strategy.