Fault tolerant formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots using online approximators

Balaje T. Thumati; Travis A. Dierks; S. Jagannathan

doi:10.1117/12.849489

7 May 2010 Fault tolerant formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots using online approximators

Balaje T. Thumati, Travis A. Dierks, S. Jagannathan

Proceedings Volume 7692, Unmanned Systems Technology XII; 76920U (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849489
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

For unmanned systems, it is desirable to have some sort of fault tolerant ability in order to accomplish the mission. Therefore, in this paper, the fault tolerant control of a formation of nonholonomic mobile robots in the presence unknown faults is undertaken. Initially, a kinematic/torque leader-follower formation control law is developed for the robots under the assumption of normal operation, and the stability of the formation is verified using Lyapunov theory. Subsequently, the control law for the formation is modified by incorporating an additional term, and this new control law compensates the effects of the faults. Moreover, the faults could be incipient or abrupt in nature. The additional term used in the modified control law is a function of the unknown fault dynamics which are recovered using the online learning capabilities of online approximators. Additionally, asymptotic convergence of the FDA scheme and the formation errors in the presence of faults is shown using Lyapunov theory. Finally, numerical results are provided to verify the theoretical conjectures.

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Balaje T. Thumati, Travis A. Dierks, and S. Jagannathan "Fault tolerant formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots using online approximators", Proc. SPIE 7692, Unmanned Systems Technology XII, 76920U (7 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849489

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