A fuzzy control approach for executing subgoal guided motion of a mobile robot in a partially-known environment

Abstract

A fuzzy control approach is proposed for controlling a mobile robot by effectively using the static knowledge of a partially-known environment and the dynamic sensor data. To describe the global structure of the static environment, a tangent-graph is first constructed and a sequence of subgoals is generated for guiding the global path direction. During the execution of these subgoals, a motion executor using the concept of fuzzy control evaluates the sensor data and the robot current status, and adjusts the moving speed and direction of the robot.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>