DOI

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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2032-2045
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume63
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2018

    Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

    Research areas

  • Circumnavigation of multiple targets, mobile robots, robot navigation, sensor-based control, three-dimensional (3-D) maneuvers, CYCLIC PURSUIT STRATEGY, LOCALIZATION, MOTION, MULTIVEHICLE SYSTEMS, TRACKING, NAVIGATION, COOPERATIVE CONTROL

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