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A nonholonomic constant speed underactuated robot with a bounded control range travels in three dimensions. A group of targets unpredictably moves in all three dimensions. The robot measures only the distances to the targets and also has access to a certain spatial direction and its own coordinate (termed 'altitude') along it. We present a new navigation law that drives the robot to the locus of points at a prespecified root-mean-square distance from the targets and ensures dense sweep coverage of this locus within a given range of 'altitudes.' This law is rigorously justified by a nonlocal convergence result supported by recommendations on controller tuning; its applicability and performance are confirmed by extensive computer simulations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2032-2045 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control |
Volume | 63 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2018 |
ID: 36614744