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Nacer Hacene, Boubekeur Mendil. Behavior-based Autonomous Navigation and Formation Control of Mobile Robots in Unknown Cluttered Dynamic Environments with Dynamic Target Tracking. International Journal of Automation and Computing, vol. 18, no. 5, pp.766-786, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-020-1264-x
Citation: Nacer Hacene, Boubekeur Mendil. Behavior-based Autonomous Navigation and Formation Control of Mobile Robots in Unknown Cluttered Dynamic Environments with Dynamic Target Tracking. International Journal of Automation and Computing, vol. 18, no. 5, pp.766-786, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-020-1264-x
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Behavior-based Autonomous Navigation and Formation Control of Mobile Robots in Unknown Cluttered Dynamic Environments with Dynamic Target Tracking

doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1264-x
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    Laboratory of Industrial Technology and Information (LITI), Faculty of Technology, University of Bejaia, Bejaia 06000, Algeria

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    Department of Automatics and Electromechanics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Ghardaia, Ghardaia 47000, Algeria

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    Nacer Hacene received the B. Eng. degree in automatic control from University of Mohamed Khider, Algeria in 2010, the M. Eng. and Ph. D. degrees in automatic control and signal processing from University of Abderrahmane Mira, Algeria in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He is with Laboratory of Industrial Technology and Information (LITI), University of Bejaia, Algeria. He is currently an associate professor with Department of Automatics and Electromechanics, Ghardaia University, Algeria. His research interests include mobile robot control, artificial intelligence, metaheuristics and swarm robotics.E-mail: hacenenacer77@gmail.com (Corresponding author)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8586-4590

    Boubekeur Mendil received the B. Eng., M. Eng. and Ph. D. degrees in industrial control from Setif University, Algeria in 1991, 1994 and 2002, respectively. Currently, he is a professor of robotics and automatic control with the Electrical Engineering Department, Abderrahmane Mira University, Algeria. He is the head of the Soft-computing Research Group, LTII Laboratory, at the same University, Algeria. His research interests include mobile robots, soft-computing, and motion control.E-mail: bmendil@yahoo.fr

  • Received Date: 2020-01-17
  • Accepted Date: 2020-10-19
  • Publish Online: 2021-03-01
  • Publish Date: 2021-10-01
    Abstract
  • While different species in nature have safely solved the problem of navigation in a dynamic environment, this remains a challenging task for researchers around the world. The paper addresses the problem of autonomous navigation in an unknown dynamic environment for a single and a group of three wheeled omnidirectional mobile robots (TWOMRs). The robot has to track a dynamic target while avoiding dynamic obstacles and dynamic walls in an unknown and very dense environment. It adopts a behavior-based controller that consists of four behaviors: “target tracking”, “obstacle avoidance”, “dynamic wall following” and “avoid robots”. The paper considers the problem of kinematic saturation. In addition, it introduces a strategy for predicting the velocity of dynamic obstacles based on two successive measurements of the ultrasonic sensors to calculate the velocity of the obstacle expressed in the sensor frame. Furthermore, the paper proposes a strategy to deal with dynamic walls even when they have U-like or V-like shapes. The approach can also deal with the formation control of a group of robots based on the leader-follower structure and the behavior-based control, where the robots have to get together and maintain a given formation while navigating toward the target, avoiding obstacles and walls in a dynamic environment. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches is demonstrated via simulation.

     

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