15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ROBUST STABILITY OF AN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT BASED ON A PARAMETRIC APPROACH
A. Mouzakitis and G. N. Roberts
Mechatronics Research Centre
University of Wales College, Newport
Allt-yr-yn Campus, P.O. Box 180, NP20 5XR Newport,
United Kingdom
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Email: alexandros.mouzakitis@newport.ac.uk

In this paper the robust stability of an autonomous mobile robot based on a parametric approach is presented. The closed-loop consists of Multi-Input Multi Output (MIMO) uncertain plant (mobile robot) and a MIMO Proportional Integral (PI) controller. Using Kharitonov’s Theorem and Zero Exclusion Condition the closed-loop system is proved to be robustly stable in the presence of parameter variations or the system dynamics which are sensitive with respect to these parameters (Uncertainty). Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the robust analysis and to prove the robust stability of the closed-loop system.
Keywords: Autonomous mobile robots, MIMO, Uncertainty, Interval polynomials, Robust control, Robust stability, Robust analysis
Session slot T-Th-M19: Mechatronic issues for robots/Area code 1g : Mechatronics Systems