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Experimental Validation Of An Autonomous Control System On A Mobile Robot Platform, Timothy Mclain, Randall W. Beard, Wei Ran, J.-S. Sun
Experimental Validation Of An Autonomous Control System On A Mobile Robot Platform, Timothy Mclain, Randall W. Beard, Wei Ran, J.-S. Sun
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An autonomous control system designed for a non-holonomic wheeled mobile robot that is programmed to emulate a fixed-wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) flying at constant altitude is experimentally validated. The overall system is capable of waypoint navigation, threat avoidance, real-time trajectory generation and trajectory tracking. Both the wheeled mobile robot experimental platform and the hierarchical autonomous control software architecture are introduced. Programmed to emulate a fixed-wing UAV flying at constant altitude, a non-holonomic mobile robot is assigned to follow a desired time-parameterised trajectory generated by a real-time trajectory generator to transition through a sequence of targets in the presence of …