Modelagem e controle de trajetória de um veículo robótico terrestre de exterior

Abstract

Autonomous ground vehicles have received special attention from robotics studies in past years. Their applications include advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), exploration of inhospitable environments and harvest autonomous machines. In partnership with CTI, this master's thesis focuses in the development of path tracking controllers applied to off-road vehicles. In order to simulate vehicle characteristics, a complete three-dimensional nonlinear dynamic model was proposed with emphasis on tire-road interaction models, which are responsible for most of the vehicle's nonlinearities. In sequence, two vehicle reduced linear models are presented and applied to synthesize LQR controllers, whose results are compared. One of them was chosen to analyse the effect of vehicles's three-dimensional dynamics on path tracking control. Finally, three different approaches are proposed to enhance controllers performance.