Path planning for recovery is studied on the engineering background of double unmanned surface vehicles(USVs)towing oil booms for oil spill recovery.Given the influence of obstacles on the sea,the improved artificial ...Path planning for recovery is studied on the engineering background of double unmanned surface vehicles(USVs)towing oil booms for oil spill recovery.Given the influence of obstacles on the sea,the improved artificial potential field(APF)method is used for path planning.For addressing the two problems of unreachable target and local minimum in the APF,three improved algorithms are proposed by combining the motion performance constraints of the double USV system.These algorithms are then combined as the final APF-123 algorithm for oil spill recovery.Multiple sets of simulation tests are designed according to the flaws of the APF and the process of oil spill recovery.Results show that the proposed algorithms can ensure the system’s safety in tracking oil spills in a complex environment,and the speed is increased by more than 40%compared with the APF method.展开更多
The method of artificial potential field has obvious advantages among the robot path planning methods including simple structure,small amount of calculation and relatively mature in theory.This paper puts forward the&...The method of artificial potential field has obvious advantages among the robot path planning methods including simple structure,small amount of calculation and relatively mature in theory.This paper puts forward the"Integral method"focusing on solving the problem of local minimization.The method analyses the distribution of obstructions in a given environment and regards adjacent obstacles as a whole,By changing the parameters of the repulsive force field,robots can quickly get out of the minimum point and move to the target point.This paper uses the Simurosot platform to carry on the simulation experiment on the improved artificial potential field method,which projects a feasible path successfully and verifies this method.展开更多
Mobile robot path planning is an important research branch in the field of mobile robots.The main disadvantage of the traditional artificial potential field(APF)method is prone to local minima problems.Improved artifi...Mobile robot path planning is an important research branch in the field of mobile robots.The main disadvantage of the traditional artificial potential field(APF)method is prone to local minima problems.Improved artificial potential field(IAPF)method is presented in this paper to solve the problem in the traditional APF method for robot path planning in different conditions.We introduce the distance between the robot and the target point to the function of the original repulsive force field and change the original direction of the repulsive force to avoid the trap problem caused by the local minimum point.The IAPF method is suitable for mobile robot path planning in the complicated environment.Simulation and experiment results at the robot platform illustrated the superiority of the modified IAPF method.展开更多
Potential field due to line sources residing on slender heterogeneities is involved in various areas,such as heat conduction,potential flow,and electrostatics.Often dipolar line sources are either prescribed or induce...Potential field due to line sources residing on slender heterogeneities is involved in various areas,such as heat conduction,potential flow,and electrostatics.Often dipolar line sources are either prescribed or induced due to close interaction with other objects.Its calculation requires a higher-order scheme to take into account the dipolar effect as well as net source effect.In the present work,we apply such a higher-order line element method to analyze the potential field with cylindrical slender heterogeneities.In a benchmark example of two parallel rods,we compare the line element solution with the boundary element solution to show the accuracy as a function in terms of rods distance.Furthermore,we use more complicated examples to demonstrate the capability of the line element technique.展开更多
For accurate trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance in finite time of a nonholonomic mobile robot,a trajectory tracking controller based on global fast terminal sliding mode method is proposed,which has the advant...For accurate trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance in finite time of a nonholonomic mobile robot,a trajectory tracking controller based on global fast terminal sliding mode method is proposed,which has the advantages of chattering-free and adjustable convergence time.First of all,the kinematics model of the robot is established in mobile carrier coordinates.Secondly,the global structure including terminal attractor and exponential convergence of the fast terminal sliding mode trajectory tracking controller is proved by Lyapunov stability theory,ensuring that the trajectory and heading angle tracking error converges to a smaller zero range in finite time.Finally,the artificial potential field obstacle avoidance method is introduced to make the robot not only track the reference trajectory strictly,but also avoid the obstacles.The simulation results show that the proposed method can achieve a stable tracking control in finite time for a given reference trajectory.展开更多
In this paper, we focus on circle formation control of multi-agent systems （MAS） with a leader. The circle formation is achieved based on the lead-following and the artificial potential field method. A distributed c...In this paper, we focus on circle formation control of multi-agent systems （MAS） with a leader. The circle formation is achieved based on the lead-following and the artificial potential field method. A distributed control law is given to make a group of agents form a circle and consequently achieve an expected angle. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed circle formation strategies are effective.展开更多
In the cloud era, the control objects are becoming larger and the information processing is more complex, and it is difficult for traditional control systems to process massive data in a timely manner. In view of the ...In the cloud era, the control objects are becoming larger and the information processing is more complex, and it is difficult for traditional control systems to process massive data in a timely manner. In view of the difficulty of data processing in the cloud era, it is extremely important to perform massive data operations through cloud servers. Unmanned aeriel vehicle(UAV) control is the representative of the intelligent field. Based on the ant colony algorithm and incorporating the potential field method, an improved potential field ant colony algorithm is designed. To deal with the path planning problem of UAVs, the potential field ant colony algorithm shortens the optimal path distance by 6.7%, increases the algorithm running time by39.3%, and increases the maximum distance by 24.1% compared with the previous improvement. The cloud server is used to process the path problem of the UAV and feedback the calculation results in real time. Simulation experiments verify the effectiveness of the new algorithm in the cloud environment.展开更多
This paper presents an optimisatiombased verification process for obstacle avoidance systems of a unicycle-like mobile robot. It is a novel approach for the collision avoidance verification process. Local and global o...This paper presents an optimisatiombased verification process for obstacle avoidance systems of a unicycle-like mobile robot. It is a novel approach for the collision avoidance verification process. Local and global optimisation based verification processes are developed to find the worst-case parameters and the worst-case distance between the robot and an obstacle. The kinematic and dynamic model of the unicycle-like mobile robot is first introduced with force and torque as the inputs. The design of the control system is split into two parts. One is velocity and rotation using the robot dynamics, and the other is the incremental motion planning for robot kinematics. The artificial potential field method is chosen as a path planning and obstacle avoidance candidate technique for verification study as it is simple and widely used. Different optimisation algorithms are applied and compared for the purpose of verification. It is shown that even for a simple case study where only mass and inertia variations are considered, a local optimization based verification method may fail to identify the worst case. Two global optimisation methods have been investigated： genetic algorithms （GAs） and GLOBAL algorithms. Both of these methods successfully find the worst case. The verification process confirms that the obstacle avoidance algorithm functions correctly in the presence of all the possible parameter variations.展开更多
A novel method is proposed to dynamically control the path following of a ground Ackerman steering robot to avoid a collision.The method consists of collision prediction module,collision avoidance module and global pa...A novel method is proposed to dynamically control the path following of a ground Ackerman steering robot to avoid a collision.The method consists of collision prediction module,collision avoidance module and global path following module.The elliptic repulsive potential field method（ER-PFM）and the enhanced vector polar histogram method（VPH＋）based on the Ackerman steering model are proposed to predict the collision in a dynamic environment.The collision avoidance is realized by the proposed cost function and speed control law.The global path following process is achieved by pure pursuit.Experiments show that the robot can fulfill the dynamic path following task safely and efficiently using the proposed method.展开更多
Aiming at the consensus of relative position considering obstacle avoidance for fractional-order multi-agent system,a novel distributed control algorithm is proposed in this paper.Firstly,a synthetic error of each age...Aiming at the consensus of relative position considering obstacle avoidance for fractional-order multi-agent system,a novel distributed control algorithm is proposed in this paper.Firstly,a synthetic error of each agent under the influence of obstacles is introduced.The consensus pro-tocols are designed based on this eror according to sliding mode theory for the order increasing and decreasing,respectively.Then,the Lyapunov function is used to prove the stable convergence of the protocols.Finally,the simulation results show that the protocols can not only prevent the agents from colliding with obstacles,but also enable the agents to quickly recover the expected formation and achieve consensus of the relative position.展开更多
In response to the problems of low sampling efficiency,strong randomness of sampling points,and the tortuous shape of the planned path in the traditional rapidly-exploring random tree(RRT)algorithm and bidirectional R...In response to the problems of low sampling efficiency,strong randomness of sampling points,and the tortuous shape of the planned path in the traditional rapidly-exploring random tree(RRT)algorithm and bidirectional RRT algorithm used for unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)path planning in complex environments,an improved bidirectional RRT algorithm was proposed.The algorithm firstly adopted a goal-oriented strategy to guide the sampling points towards the target point,and then the artificial potential field acted on the random tree nodes to avoid collision with obstacles and reduced the length of the search path,and the random tree node growth also combined the UAV’s own flight constraints,and by combining the triangulation method to remove the redundant node strategy and the third-order B-spline curve for the smoothing of the trajectory,the planned path was better.The planned paths were more optimized.Finally,the simulation experiments in complex and dynamic environments showed that the algorithm effectively improved the speed of trajectory planning and shortened the length of the trajectory,and could generate a safe,smooth and fast trajectory in complex environments,which could be applied to online trajectory planning.展开更多
ln order to ensure the safety and efficiency of the section tracking operation of a guided transport system,a safety headway control method of section tracking based on intersection conditions is proposed in this pape...ln order to ensure the safety and efficiency of the section tracking operation of a guided transport system,a safety headway control method of section tracking based on intersection conditions is proposed in this paper.Considering the difference of signal phase,the evaluation model of road conditions was established based on a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method,FAGT.Based on the artificial potential field method,the time-varying hybrid artificial potential field(TH-APF)method was proposed,and the tracking headway control algorithm was designed to realize the dynamic control of the tracking headway of the guide transport vehicle.The simulation results verified the effectiveness and applicability of the evaluation model of intersection road conditions;the tracking headway can be maintained at about 120 s.The tracking headway control algorithm of guided transport vehicles can respond to the road conditions and avoid the local optimum of the artificial potential field method,thus improving the operating efficiency.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52071097)Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 522MS162)Research Fund from Science and Technology on Underwater Vehicle Technology Laboratory (Grant No. 2021JCJQ-SYSJJ-LB06910)。
文摘Path planning for recovery is studied on the engineering background of double unmanned surface vehicles(USVs)towing oil booms for oil spill recovery.Given the influence of obstacles on the sea,the improved artificial potential field(APF)method is used for path planning.For addressing the two problems of unreachable target and local minimum in the APF,three improved algorithms are proposed by combining the motion performance constraints of the double USV system.These algorithms are then combined as the final APF-123 algorithm for oil spill recovery.Multiple sets of simulation tests are designed according to the flaws of the APF and the process of oil spill recovery.Results show that the proposed algorithms can ensure the system’s safety in tracking oil spills in a complex environment,and the speed is increased by more than 40%compared with the APF method.
文摘The method of artificial potential field has obvious advantages among the robot path planning methods including simple structure,small amount of calculation and relatively mature in theory.This paper puts forward the"Integral method"focusing on solving the problem of local minimization.The method analyses the distribution of obstructions in a given environment and regards adjacent obstacles as a whole,By changing the parameters of the repulsive force field,robots can quickly get out of the minimum point and move to the target point.This paper uses the Simurosot platform to carry on the simulation experiment on the improved artificial potential field method,which projects a feasible path successfully and verifies this method.
基金the National Nature Science Foundation of China(Nos.51579024,61374114)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(DMU No.3132016311).
文摘Mobile robot path planning is an important research branch in the field of mobile robots.The main disadvantage of the traditional artificial potential field(APF)method is prone to local minima problems.Improved artificial potential field(IAPF)method is presented in this paper to solve the problem in the traditional APF method for robot path planning in different conditions.We introduce the distance between the robot and the target point to the function of the original repulsive force field and change the original direction of the repulsive force to avoid the trap problem caused by the local minimum point.The IAPF method is suitable for mobile robot path planning in the complicated environment.Simulation and experiment results at the robot platform illustrated the superiority of the modified IAPF method.
文摘Potential field due to line sources residing on slender heterogeneities is involved in various areas,such as heat conduction,potential flow,and electrostatics.Often dipolar line sources are either prescribed or induced due to close interaction with other objects.Its calculation requires a higher-order scheme to take into account the dipolar effect as well as net source effect.In the present work,we apply such a higher-order line element method to analyze the potential field with cylindrical slender heterogeneities.In a benchmark example of two parallel rods,we compare the line element solution with the boundary element solution to show the accuracy as a function in terms of rods distance.Furthermore,we use more complicated examples to demonstrate the capability of the line element technique.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61673042)Shanxi Province Science Foundation for Youths(No.201701D221123)。
文摘For accurate trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance in finite time of a nonholonomic mobile robot,a trajectory tracking controller based on global fast terminal sliding mode method is proposed,which has the advantages of chattering-free and adjustable convergence time.First of all,the kinematics model of the robot is established in mobile carrier coordinates.Secondly,the global structure including terminal attractor and exponential convergence of the fast terminal sliding mode trajectory tracking controller is proved by Lyapunov stability theory,ensuring that the trajectory and heading angle tracking error converges to a smaller zero range in finite time.Finally,the artificial potential field obstacle avoidance method is introduced to make the robot not only track the reference trajectory strictly,but also avoid the obstacles.The simulation results show that the proposed method can achieve a stable tracking control in finite time for a given reference trajectory.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61233002)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.N120404019)
文摘In this paper, we focus on circle formation control of multi-agent systems （MAS） with a leader. The circle formation is achieved based on the lead-following and the artificial potential field method. A distributed control law is given to make a group of agents form a circle and consequently achieve an expected angle. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed circle formation strategies are effective.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (LH2021E045)。
文摘In the cloud era, the control objects are becoming larger and the information processing is more complex, and it is difficult for traditional control systems to process massive data in a timely manner. In view of the difficulty of data processing in the cloud era, it is extremely important to perform massive data operations through cloud servers. Unmanned aeriel vehicle(UAV) control is the representative of the intelligent field. Based on the ant colony algorithm and incorporating the potential field method, an improved potential field ant colony algorithm is designed. To deal with the path planning problem of UAVs, the potential field ant colony algorithm shortens the optimal path distance by 6.7%, increases the algorithm running time by39.3%, and increases the maximum distance by 24.1% compared with the previous improvement. The cloud server is used to process the path problem of the UAV and feedback the calculation results in real time. Simulation experiments verify the effectiveness of the new algorithm in the cloud environment.
文摘This paper presents an optimisatiombased verification process for obstacle avoidance systems of a unicycle-like mobile robot. It is a novel approach for the collision avoidance verification process. Local and global optimisation based verification processes are developed to find the worst-case parameters and the worst-case distance between the robot and an obstacle. The kinematic and dynamic model of the unicycle-like mobile robot is first introduced with force and torque as the inputs. The design of the control system is split into two parts. One is velocity and rotation using the robot dynamics, and the other is the incremental motion planning for robot kinematics. The artificial potential field method is chosen as a path planning and obstacle avoidance candidate technique for verification study as it is simple and widely used. Different optimisation algorithms are applied and compared for the purpose of verification. It is shown that even for a simple case study where only mass and inertia variations are considered, a local optimization based verification method may fail to identify the worst case. Two global optimisation methods have been investigated： genetic algorithms （GAs） and GLOBAL algorithms. Both of these methods successfully find the worst case. The verification process confirms that the obstacle avoidance algorithm functions correctly in the presence of all the possible parameter variations.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91420203)
文摘A novel method is proposed to dynamically control the path following of a ground Ackerman steering robot to avoid a collision.The method consists of collision prediction module,collision avoidance module and global path following module.The elliptic repulsive potential field method（ER-PFM）and the enhanced vector polar histogram method（VPH＋）based on the Ackerman steering model are proposed to predict the collision in a dynamic environment.The collision avoidance is realized by the proposed cost function and speed control law.The global path following process is achieved by pure pursuit.Experiments show that the robot can fulfill the dynamic path following task safely and efficiently using the proposed method.
基金supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(2024JC-YBMS-451,2024JC-YBQN-0398).
文摘Aiming at the consensus of relative position considering obstacle avoidance for fractional-order multi-agent system,a novel distributed control algorithm is proposed in this paper.Firstly,a synthetic error of each agent under the influence of obstacles is introduced.The consensus pro-tocols are designed based on this eror according to sliding mode theory for the order increasing and decreasing,respectively.Then,the Lyapunov function is used to prove the stable convergence of the protocols.Finally,the simulation results show that the protocols can not only prevent the agents from colliding with obstacles,but also enable the agents to quickly recover the expected formation and achieve consensus of the relative position.
基金supported by Gansu Provincial Science and Technology Program Project(No.23JRRA868)Lanzhou Municipal Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project(No.2019-RC-103)。
文摘In response to the problems of low sampling efficiency,strong randomness of sampling points,and the tortuous shape of the planned path in the traditional rapidly-exploring random tree(RRT)algorithm and bidirectional RRT algorithm used for unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)path planning in complex environments,an improved bidirectional RRT algorithm was proposed.The algorithm firstly adopted a goal-oriented strategy to guide the sampling points towards the target point,and then the artificial potential field acted on the random tree nodes to avoid collision with obstacles and reduced the length of the search path,and the random tree node growth also combined the UAV’s own flight constraints,and by combining the triangulation method to remove the redundant node strategy and the third-order B-spline curve for the smoothing of the trajectory,the planned path was better.The planned paths were more optimized.Finally,the simulation experiments in complex and dynamic environments showed that the algorithm effectively improved the speed of trajectory planning and shortened the length of the trajectory,and could generate a safe,smooth and fast trajectory in complex environments,which could be applied to online trajectory planning.
基金supported by National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2021YFF0501102)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1934219)+1 种基金National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars(Grant No.52022010)State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety(Contract No.RCS2022ZI002).
文摘ln order to ensure the safety and efficiency of the section tracking operation of a guided transport system,a safety headway control method of section tracking based on intersection conditions is proposed in this paper.Considering the difference of signal phase,the evaluation model of road conditions was established based on a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method,FAGT.Based on the artificial potential field method,the time-varying hybrid artificial potential field(TH-APF)method was proposed,and the tracking headway control algorithm was designed to realize the dynamic control of the tracking headway of the guide transport vehicle.The simulation results verified the effectiveness and applicability of the evaluation model of intersection road conditions;the tracking headway can be maintained at about 120 s.The tracking headway control algorithm of guided transport vehicles can respond to the road conditions and avoid the local optimum of the artificial potential field method,thus improving the operating efficiency.
