Online Learning Based Mobile Robot Controller Adaptation for Slip Reduction

01/30/2023
by   Huidong Gao, et al.
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Slip is a very common phenomena present in wheeled mobile robotic systems. It has undesirable consequences such as wasting energy and impeding system stability. To tackle the challenge of mobile robot trajectory tracking under slippery conditions, we propose a hierarchical framework that learns and adapts gains of the tracking controllers simultaneously online. Concretely, a reinforcement learning (RL) module is used to auto-tune parameters in a lateral predictive controller and a longitudinal speed PID controller. Experiments show the necessity of simultaneous gain tuning, and have demonstrated that our online framework outperforms the best baseline controller using fixed gains. By utilizing online gain adaptation, our framework achieves robust tracking performance by rejecting slip and reducing tracking errors when the mobile robot travels through various terrains.

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