<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carlos Santos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Felipe Espinosa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daniel Pizarro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fernando Valdés</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Enrique Santiso</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Isabel Díaz</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fuzzy Decentralized Control for guidance of a convoy of robots in non-linear trajectories</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2010 </style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">09/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This article presents a control solution for the guidance of wheeled convoy units in non-linear trajectories. The proposal consists of a Mamdani fuzzy
controller to solve the Decentralized Control problem as applied to a set of units following a leader, whilst guaranteeing the so called “string stability” condition of the convoy.
Fuzzy control design is described for each of the follower units, whose action is determined by their own motion state, that of its predecessor and the leader’s trajectory. The “string stability” is ensured by the adjustment of the linear velocity transfer function for each unit.
Results are given for simulated and experimental trials carried out with P3-DX robot units sharing a wireless network.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>