Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 854140, 14 pages

doi:10.1155/2012/854140

Research Article

Energy Reduction with Anticontrol of Chaos for Nonholonomic Mobile Robot System

Zahra Yaghoubi,¹ Hassan Zarabadipour,¹ and Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli²

¹Department of Electrical Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin 34149-16818, Iran

²Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran 19697, Iran

Received 18 June 2012; Accepted 7 September 2012

Academic Editor: Jinhu Lü

Copyright © 2012 Zahra Yaghoubi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

This paper presents energy reduction with anticontrol of chaos for nonholonomic mobile robot system. Anticontrol of chaos is also called chaotification, meaning to chaotify an originally non-chaotic system, and in this paper error of mobile robot system has been synchronized with chaotic gyroscope for reducing energy and increasing performance. The benefits of chaos synchronization with mechanical systems have led us to an innovation in this paper. The main purpose is that the control system in the presence of chaos work with lower control cost and control effort has been reduced. For comparison of proposed method, the feedback linearization controller has also been designed for mobile robot with noise. Finally, the efficacies of the proposed method have been illustrated by simulations, energy of control signals has been calculated, and effect of Alpha (: a constant coefficient is used beside of chaotic system) variations on the energy of control signals has been checked.

1. Introduction

Wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) have been an active area of research and development over the past three decades [1]. This long-term interest has been mainly fueled by the myriad of practical applications that can be uniquely addressed by mobile robots due to their ability to work in large domains. These WMRs are called nonholonomic mobile robots because of their no-slip kinematic constraints. Nonholonomic behavior in robotic systems is particularly interesting because it implies that the mechanism can be controlled with reduced number of actuators [2].

The tracking control approaches for the mobile robots are mainly divided into six types: (1) feedback linearization [3–5]; (2) sliding-mode control [6, 7]; (3) backstepping control [8–11]; (4) computed torque; (5) adaptive control [12, 13]; (6) intelligent control [14].

Tracking control by using synchronization of a mechanical system with a chaotic system is presented in this paper and it is compared with error and with noise.

Many natural and man-made systems can be represented by means of a graph in mathematical terms, and these graphs are called complex networks. Most real-world industrial systems such as mobile robot are typical complex networks. Collective motions of complex networks have recently been the subject of considerable interest within the science and technology communities. Especially, one of the interesting and significant phenomena in complex dynamical networks is the synchronization of all dynamical nodes in a network [15, 16]. There are many papers which discuss the network synchronization problem, and there are results reported in the literature on how to rigorously characterize the network synchronizability [17].

Dynamic chaos is a very interesting nonlinear effect which has been intensively studied during the last three decades. Chaos control can be mainly divided into two categories [18]: one is the suppression of the chaotic dynamical behavior and the other is to generate or enhance chaos in nonlinear system. Because of features of chaos system such as globally stable, we use it, such that the error system is synchronized with chaotic system and state variables follow the reference path. Error synchronization is also called anti-control of chaos or chaotification meaning to chaotify an originally non-chaotic system.

For common tracking control, error converges to zero, but, generally, there are three choices for error: error converges to zero, error is synchronized with periodic signals, and error is synchronized with chaotic system.

In this paper, error of mobile robot system is synchronized with chaotic gyroscope for reducing energy and increasing performance. For comparison of proposed method, the feedback linearization controller is also designed for mobile robot with Gaussian and Rayleigh noises.

The paper is organized in the following manner. Nonholonomic mobile robot dynamics and its state-space representation and the constraint equations of the mobile robot are described in Section 2. In Section 3, generally, the feedback linearization controller for MIMO (multi-input-multi-output) nonlinear systems is explained. Section 4 presents the feedback linearization controller for mobile robot. In Section 5, anti-control of chaos and feedback linearization controller for mobile robot by using chaotification are presented. In Section 6, chaotic gyroscope system is described. Feedback linearization for mobile robot with noise is presented in Section 7. In Section 8, simulation results for control of mobile robot, anti-control of chaos for control mobile robot, control of the mobile robot with noise, comparison between them, and effect of Alpha (: a constant coefficient is used beside of chaotic system) variations on the energy of control signals are presented, and the final section is conclusion.

2. Mobile Robot Kinematics

The kinematic model of the mobile robot is given as follows:

where and are the forward and the angular velocities are considered as inputs, (following vehicle in Figure 1). The no-slip condition, and, namely, no lateral velocity, imposes the nonholonomic constraint:

Figure 1: Illustration of the error transformation where the following vehicle follows the path of the leading vehicle at distance .

Assume that a feasible reference is given and satisfies the following equations:

where and are considered as reference inputs and they can be derived as

In Figure 1 the reference vehicle is an imaginary vehicle that ideally follows the reference path. In contrast, the real vehicle (when compared to the reference vehicle) has some error when following the reference path. The trajectory tracking error, expressed in terms of the following vehicle, as shown in Figure 1, is given by [19]

Differentiating (2.5) with respect to time and taking into account the kinematic model given by (2.1), and the equivalent kinematic model of the reference vehicle given by (2.3), the following nonlinear error model of the system is obtained:

Here, the tracking control problem is to find appropriate control laws for and such that the tracking error converges to zero.

3. Feedback Linearization for MIMO Nonlinear Systems

Consider a “square” system (where the number of inputs is equal to the number of outputs = ):

Let , the relative degree, be defined as the relative degree of each output, that is, for some , .

Let be a matrix such that:

is called the decoupling matrix. We will assume that is nonsingular.

Let

where is an vector:

Then we have

where is the synthetic input is .

Now, we obtain a decoupled set of equations:

To obtain the control , design by using linear techniques:

4. Feedback Linearization for Mobile Robot

Considering the kinematic model of mobile robot given by (2.1), as shown in Figure 2, the feedback linearization controller will be designed.

Figure 2: Block diagram of control system.

and are defined as outputs:

is clearly singular (has rank 1).

Let .

The state has been extended:

Take and :

The relative degrees are 2, and the new matrix: is nonsingular for :

To obtain the control, :

design by using linear techniques and .

5. Feedback Linearization for Mobile Robot with Using Anticontrol of Chaos (Chaotification)

In previous section, error signals are converged to zero but in this section the error signals track the small ratio of amplitude of chaotic gyroscope system, as shown in Figure 3. For making the small ratio of amplitude, a constant coefficient is used beside of chaotic system. This coefficient is .

Figure 3: Block diagram of control system.

Feedback linearization technique in previous section will be used for error system is given by (2.6); and are defined as outputs:

is clearly singular (has rank 1).

Let , , .

The state has been extended:

Take and :

The relative degrees are 2, and the new matrix: is nonsingular for , and

To obtain the control, :

design by using linear techniques and .

6. Chaotic Gyroscope System

The symmetric gyroscope mounted on a vibrating base is shown in Figure 4. The dynamics of a symmetrical gyro with linear-plus-cubic damping of angle can be expressed as [20]

where is a parametric excitation, and are linear and nonlinear damping terms, respectively, and is a nonlinear resilience force. According to [20], in a symmetric gyro mounted on a vibrating base, the precession and the spin angles have cyclic motions, and hence their momentum integrals are constant and equal to each other. So the governing equations of motion depend only on the mutational angle . Using Routh’s procedure and assuming a linear-plus-cubic form for dissipative force, (6.1) is obtained [20]. Given the states and , (6.1) can be rewritten as follows:

Figure 4: A schematic diagram of a symmetric gyroscope.

This gyro system exhibits complex dynamics and has been studied by [20] for values of in the range and constant values of , , , , and . Figure 5 illustrates the irregular motion exhibited by this system for and initial conditions of .

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Figure 5: (a) Time series of and , (b) phase portrait of gyroscope.

7. Feedback Linearization for Mobile Robot with Noise

As in previous section, instead of chaos system, noise is entered to control block diagram. It means that error system instead of converging to zero, is faced with noise, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6: Block diagram of control system.

System has two inputs and two outputs; in anti-control of chaos for desired references, the two states gyroscope system is used, and for noise, Gaussian noise and Rayleigh noise are the desired references for error system.

Equations are similar to Section 5, and for making the small ratio of amplitude, a constant coefficient is used beside of noise. This coefficient is .

8. Simulation Results

8.1. Control of the Mobile Robot

Control of the mobile robot dynamic model is applied to system with circle feasible reference (desired), and results are shown in Figure 7. In this figure reference path is circle (, ). In Figure 7(a), control signals ( and ) for controlling mobile robot and, in Figure 7(b), path following by mobile robot are shown.

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Figure 7: (a) Control signals for circle reference and (b) path following.

8.2. Anticontrol of Chaos for Controlling Mobile Robot

Anti-control of chaos for the mobile robot dynamic model is applied to system with circle feasible reference (desired), and results are shown in Figure 8. In this figure reference path is circle (, ). In Figure 8(a), control signals ( and ) for controlling mobile robot and, in Figure 8(b), path following by mobile robot are shown. As shown in Figure 3, the error system is synchronized with chaotic gyroscope systems and . Gyroscope system has two states, and the error system has three states; for this problem, we synchronize second state of error system with second state of gyroscope system and third state of error system with first state of gyroscope system, and first state of error system commonly is tracked zero.

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Figure 8: (a) Control signals for circle reference for anti-control of chaos with and (b) path following.

8.3. Control of the Mobile Robot with Noise

Control of the mobile robot with noise is applied to system with circle feasible reference (desired), and results are shown in Figure 9. In this figure reference path is circle (, ). In Figure 9(a), control signals ( and ) for controlling mobile robot and, in Figure 9(b), path following by mobile robot are shown. As shown in Figure 6, the error system is converging to zero with Gaussian noise and Rayleigh noise and .

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Figure 9: (a) Control signals for circle wave reference for noise with and (b) path following.

8.4. Energy Comparison

The major purpose of this paper is energy comparison between control signals. These control signals are for control of mobile robot and error system synchronization with chaos and control of error system with noise. In this paper, energy means square of signals integral (area under the curve); energy is calculated as follows:

The comparison of energy is shown in Table 1, it can be seen that anticontrol of chaos of error system synchronization with chaotic gyroscope and improves energy even better than error with noise.

Table 1: Energy comparison.

Control
Feedback linearization control
Anti-control of chaos
Noise

Circle
15683
592.0880
674.5611

8.5. Effect of Alpha () Variations on the Energy of Control Signals

In this section, we show the effect of Alpha () on energy of control signal with Figure 10. When Alpha () is zero (it means to control mobile robot that error converges to zero), energy value is more than energy values in . For , energy increases from minimum value.

Figure 10: Effect of Alpha () variations on the energy of control signals.

9. Conclusion

In this paper, energy reduction with anti-control of chaos for nonholonomic mobile robot system was checked, and the mobile robot system was, controlled with three different ways and feedback linearization controller was used for controlling with circle feasible references. Error of mobile robot system was synchronized with chaotic system instead of zero tracking and was compared with noise instead of chaotic system. Energy improving for anti-control of chaos is visible. Finally, this mobile robot control with chaos synchronization also provides some new insights for controlling and the possible applications in the real-world engineering systems.

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