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This paper presents experimental results acquired from the implementation of an adaptive control scheme for nonholonomic mobile robots, which was recently proposed by the same authors and tested only by simulations. The control system comprises a trajectory tracking kinematic controller, which generates the reference wheel velocities, and a cascade dynamic controller, which estimates the robot’s uncertain nonlinear dynamic functions in real-time via a multilayer perceptron neural network. In this manner precise velocity tracking is attained, even in the presence of unknown and/or time-varying dynamics. The experimental mobile robot, designed and built for the purpose of this research, is also presented in this paper.
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Bugeja, M.K., Fabri, S.G. (2008). Multilayer Perceptron Adaptive Dynamic Control of Mobile Robots: Experimental Validation. In: Bruyninckx, H., Přeučil, L., Kulich, M. (eds) European Robotics Symposium 2008. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78317-6_17
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