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Vol: 53(67) No: 4 / December 2008 

Fuzzy Control of Tricycle Wheeled Mobile Robots Based on Sensitivity Analysis
Stefan Preitl
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Bd. V. Parvan No. 2, RO-300223 Timisoara, Romania, phone: (+40) 256-40-3224, e-mail: stefan.preitl@aut.upt.ro, web: http://www.aut.upt.ro/~spreitl/
Radu-Emil Precup
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Bd. V. Parvan No. 2, RO-300223 Timisoara, Romania, phone: (+40) 256-40-3226, e-mail: radu.precup@aut.upt.ro, web: http://www.aut.upt.ro/~rprecup/
József K. Tar
Institute of Intelligent Engineering Systems, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Budapest Tech, Bécsi út 96/b, 1034 Budapest, Hungary, phone: (36-1) 666-5538, e-mail: tar.jozsef@nik.bmf.hu, web: http://www.bmf.hu
Péter Korondi
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Goldmann György tér, 3 – 1111 Budapest, Hungary, e-mail: korondi@elektro.get.bme.hu
Igor Škrjanc
Laboratory of Modelling, Simulation and Control, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tržaška 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, phone: +386 (0)1 4768-311, e-mail: igor.skrjanc@fe.uni-lj.si, web: http://msc.fe.uni-lj.si/Staff.asp?person7
Sašo Blažič
Laboratory of Modelling, Simulation and Control, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tržaška 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, phone: +386 (0)1 4768-763, e-mail: saso.blazic@fe.uni-lj.si, web: http://msc.fe.uni-lj.si/Staff.asp?person15


Keywords: cascade control system, sensitivity analysis, tricycle wheeled mobile robots

Abstract
The paper deals with the design of fuzzy control systems for a class of tricycle wheeled mobile robots with two degrees of freedom. The design is enabled by the sensitivity analysis with respect to the parametric variations of the controlled plant. One cascade control system structure is designed. It calculates off-line generation the two reference inputs by the artificial potential field method employed for obstacle avoidance. A case study is described shortly. Digital simulation results illustrate the theoretical approach.

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