Duality-Based Nonlinear Quadratic Control: Application to Mobile Robot Trajectory-Following

[EN] This paper presents noniterative linearizationbased controllers for nonlinear unconstrained systems, coined as extended Rauch Tung Striebel (ERTS) and unscented Rauch Tung Striebel (URTS) controllers, derived from the duality between optimal control and estimation. The proposed controllers use...

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Autores: Leopoldo Armesto|||0000-0003-0979-4428, Sala, Antonio|||0000-0002-5691-8772, Girbés, Vicent, Miroslav Zima, Václav mídl
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/88030
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/88030
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Duality control estimation
Optimal control
Robot trajectory-following
INGENIERIA DE SISTEMAS Y AUTOMATICA
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Sumario:[EN] This paper presents noniterative linearizationbased controllers for nonlinear unconstrained systems, coined as extended Rauch Tung Striebel (ERTS) and unscented Rauch Tung Striebel (URTS) controllers, derived from the duality between optimal control and estimation. The proposed controllers use a Rauch Tung Striebel forward backward smoother as an state estimator to compute the original optimal control problem. The new controllers are applied to trajectory-following problems of differential-drive mobile robots and compared with iterative linear quadratic regulator controller, nonlinear model predictive control, and approximate inference approaches. Simulations show that ERTS and URTS controllers produce almost optimal solutions with a significantly lower computing time, avoiding initialization issues in the other algorithms (in fact, they can be used to initialize them). This paper validates ERTS controller with an experiment of a Pioneer 3-DX mobile robot.