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Vehicular formation control is an important component of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). In practical implementations, the controller design needs to satisfy multiple state constraints, including inter-vehicle spacing and vehicle…
In this study, a stochastic power management strategy for in-wheel motor electric vehicles (IWM-EV) is proposed to reduce the energy consumption and increase the driving range by considering the unpredictable nature of the driving power…
The design of the path-following controller is crucial for reliable autonomous vehicle operation. This design problem is especially challenging for a general 2-trailer with a car-like tractor due to the vehicle's unstable joint-angle…
This paper deals with the problem of string stability in a chain of acceleration-controlled vehicles. It is known that string stability cannot be achieved, with any linear controller, when the vehicles' control inputs are based on relative…
The control of a Dubins Vehicle when subjected to a loss of control effectiveness in the turning rate is considered. A complex state-space representation is used to model the vehicle dynamics. An adaptive control design is proposed, with…
Mobile robots have received a great deal of research in recent years. A significant amount of research has been published in many aspects related to mobile robots. Most of the research is devoted to design and develop some control…
Elastic actuation taps into elastic elements' energy storage for dynamic motions beyond rigid actuation. While Series Elastic Actuators (SEA) and Variable Stiffness Actuators (VSA) are highly sophisticated, they do not fully provide control…
We introduce a robust control architecture for the whole-body motion control of torque controlled robots with arms and legs. The method is based on the robust control of contact forces in order to track a planned Center of Mass trajectory.…
This paper investigates the position-tracking control problem for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with a turbojet engine via an integrated flight and propulsion control scheme. To this end, a hierarchical control…
Multi-robot formation control has various applications in domains such as vehicle troops, platoons, payload transportation, and surveillance. Maintaining formation in a vehicle platoon requires designing a suitable control scheme that can…
This work proposes variational autoencoders (VAEs) to predict a vehicle's jerk signals from torque demand in the context of limited real-world drivetrain datasets. We implement both unconditional and conditional VAEs, trained on…
This paper presents a novel linear robust Youla controller output observation system for tracking vehicle motion trajectories using a simple nonlinear kinematic vehicle model, supplemented with positional data from a radar sensor. The…
Consensus formation tracking of multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) subject to nonlinear and uncertain dynamics is a challenging problem in robotics. To tackle this challenge, a distributed bioinspired sliding mode controller is…
This paper presents the design of an integral controller for vehicle platoons with actuator dynamics. The proposed controller ensures string stability with disturbances and simultaneously compensates for constant disturbances through…
Contraction theory is an analytical tool to study differential dynamics of a non-autonomous (i.e., time-varying) nonlinear system under a contraction metric defined with a uniformly positive definite matrix, the existence of which results…
Stable aerial manipulation during dynamic tasks such as object catching, perching, or contact with rigid surfaces necessarily requires compliant behavior, which is often achieved via impedance control. Successful manipulation depends on how…
Continuous direct yaw moment control systems such as torque-vectoring controller are an essential part for vehicle stabilization. This controller has been extensively researched with the central objective of maintaining the vehicle…
Oversteer, wherein a vehicle's rear tires lose traction and induce unintentional excessive yaw, poses critical safety challenges. Failing to control oversteer often leads to severe traffic accidents. Although recent autonomous driving…
Underwater Unmanned Vehicles (UUVs) have to constantly compensate for the external disturbing forces acting on their body. Adaptive Control theory is commonly used there to grant the control law some flexibility in its response to process…
Collaborative robots must simultaneously be safe enough to operate in close proximity to human operators and powerful enough to assist users in industrial tasks such as lifting heavy equipment. The requirement for safety necessitates that…