Trajectory Tracking for a Wheeled Mobile Robot Using a Vision Based Positioning System and an Attitude Observer

The trajectory tracking problem for a wheeled mobile robot is addressed and solved by means of a partial state feedback strategy based on measurements from an indoor vision based absolute positioning system. The Cartesian coordinates provided by the localization system are fed to the proposed observer in order to estimate the orientation of the vehicle. It is shown that the combination of a classical dynamic full information controller with an asymptotically convergent vehicle attitude observer, designed using the immersion and invariance technique, yields a locally asymptotically stable closed-loop system. Real time experiments show the performance of the proposed control scheme.