A Switched Approach to Image-Based Stabilization for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Field-of-View Constraints

This paper presents a switched visual servoing strategy for maneuvering the nonholonomic mobile robot to the desired configuration while keeping the tracked image points in the vision of the camera. Firstly, a pure backward motion and a pure rotational motion are applied to the mobile robot in succe...

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Main Author: Yao Huang
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: MDPI AG 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c7e4c3dadf914890bbca8dd64cd3c30d
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Summary:This paper presents a switched visual servoing strategy for maneuvering the nonholonomic mobile robot to the desired configuration while keeping the tracked image points in the vision of the camera. Firstly, a pure backward motion and a pure rotational motion are applied to the mobile robot in succession. Thus, the principle point and the scaled focal length in <i>x</i> direction of the camera are identified through the visual feedback from a fixed onboard camera. Secondly, the identified parameters are used to build the system model in polar-coordinate representation. Then an adaptive non-smooth controller is designed to maneuver the mobile robot to the desired configuration under the nonholonomic constraint. And a switched strategy which consists of two image-based controllers is utilized for keeping the features in the field-of-view. Simulation results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.