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Nonholonomic source seeking in switching random fields

Azuma, Sun-ichi
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Sakar, Selman  
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Pappas, George
2010
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

We consider the problem of designing controllers for nonholonomic mobile robots converging to the source (minimum) of a field. In addition to the mobility constraints posed by the nonholonomic dynamics, we assume that the field is completely unknown to the robot and the robot has no knowledge of its own position. Furthermore, the field is randomly switching. In this paper, we combine ideas from stochastic approximations and nonholonomic control, in order to address this challenging problem. In particular, we develop a rotation-invariant and forward-sided version of the simultaneous-perturbation stochastic algorithm, which is much more suitable for sensor-free navigation. Based on this algorithm, we design source seeking controllers for nonholonomic robots and prove convergence to the unknown source with probability 1. The proposed controllers are demonstrated by numerical simulations.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/CDC.2010.5717650
Author(s)
Azuma, Sun-ichi
Sakar, Selman  
Pappas, George
Date Issued

2010

Published in
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Start page

6337

End page

6342

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REVIEWED

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OTHER

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Atlanta, GA, USA

December 15-17, 2010

Available on Infoscience
February 16, 2016
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