A speed-limited robot travels in a dynamic environment cluttered with arbitrarily shaped moving obstacles. There also is an unpredictably moving target in the scene. The robot measures the heading angle to the target and the distance to the nearest obstacle along any ray emitted from the robot. A simple reactive navigation strategy is presented that autonomously drives the robot to the target in a finite time provided that the algorithm is properly tuned. This is shown via a mathematically rigorous global convergence result under minor and partly unavoidable technical assumptions. Feasible closed-form recommendations on controller tuning are offered. Theoretical results are confirmed by computer simulation tests.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages220-225
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728113982
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2019
Event58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019 - Nice, France
Duration: 11 Dec 201913 Dec 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume2019-December
ISSN (Print)0743-1546
ISSN (Electronic)2576-2370

Conference

Conference58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period11/12/1913/12/19

    Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Control and Optimization

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