Optimal Tracking Control of a Micro Ground Vehicle

Soichiro Watanabe; Masanori Harada

doi:10.20965/jrm.2015.p0653

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JRM Vol.27 No.6 pp. 653-659

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2015.p0653

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Optimal Tracking Control of a Micro Ground Vehicle

Soichiro Watanabe and Masanori Harada

National Defense Academy of Japan
1-10-20 Hashirimizu, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 239-8686, Japan

Received:

June 19, 2015

Accepted:

October 12, 2015

Published:

December 20, 2015

Keywords:

optimal control, MGV, trajectory

Abstract

Coordinate system of MGV

This paper investigates the application of optimal micro ground vehicle (MGV) control involving overall tracking by model-predictive control (MPC) during a minimum-time maneuver. The MPC’s reference trajectory is obtained beforehand by numerically calculating an optimal control problem described as a minimum-time maneuver. Results provide nominal tracking performance and confirm the feasibility of our approach.

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S. Watanabe and M. Harada, “Optimal Tracking Control of a Micro Ground Vehicle,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.27 No.6, pp. 653-659, 2015.

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[12] [12] M. Harada, “Direct Trajectory Optimization by a Jacobi Pseudospectral Method with the Weights of High-Order Gauss-Lobatto Formulae,” Trans. of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Series C, Vol.73, No.728, pp.119-124, 2007 (in Japanese).

[13] [13] M. Harada, “Covector Estimation for Optimal Control Solver using a Jacobi Pseudospectral Method,” Trans. of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol.49, No.8, pp. 808-815, 2013 (in Japanese).