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Virtual Landmark-Based Control of Docking Support for Assistive Mobility Devices

Yang, Chen
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Paez Granados, Diego Felipe  
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Leme, Bruno
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August 1, 2021
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

This work proposes an autonomous docking control for nonholonomic constrained mobile robots and applies it to an intelligent mobility device or wheelchair for assisting the user in approaching resting furniture such as a chair or a bed. We defined a virtual landmark inferred from the target docking destination. Then we solve the problem of keeping the targeted volume inside the field of view (FOV) of a tracking camera and docking to the virtual landmark through a novel definition that enables to control for the desired end-pose. We proposed a nonlinear feedback controller to perform the docking with the depth camera’s FOV as a constraint. Then a numerical method is proposed to find the feasible space of initial states where convergence could be guaranteed. Finally, the entire system was embedded for real-time operation on a standing wheelchair with the virtual landmark estimation by 3D object tracking with an RGB-D camera and we validated the effectiveness in simulation and experimental evaluations. The results show the guaranteed convergence for the feasible space depending on the virtual landmark location. In the implementation, the robot converges to the virtual landmark while respecting the FOV constraints.

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