Modelling and control strategies in path tracking control for autonomous ground vehicles: A review of state of the art and challenges

NH Amer, H Zamzuri, K Hudha, ZA Kadir - Journal of intelligent & robotic …, 2017 - Springer
Autonomous vehicle field of study has seen considerable researches within three decades.
In the last decade particularly, interests in this field has undergone tremendous …

A reinforcement learning-based adaptive path tracking approach for autonomous driving

Y Shan, B Zheng, L Chen, L Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The path tracking system is a crucial component in fully autonomous vehicles. While many
methods provide stateof-the-art tracking performance, they tend to emphasize tracking …

Indoor experimental validation of MPC-based trajectory tracking for a quadcopter via a flat mapping approach

HT Do, I Prodan - 2023 European Control Conference (ECC), 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Differential flatness has been used to provide diffeomorphic transformations for non-linear
dynamics to become a linear controllable system. This greatly simplifies the control …

Constrained trajectory generation for uav systems using a b-spline parametrization

F Stoican, I Prodan, D Popescu… - 2017 25th Mediterranean …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper extends some previous work on trajectory generation for UAV (Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles) using differential flatness in combination with B-splines parametrization. The …

Model predictive controller for path tracking and obstacle avoidance manoeuvre on autonomous vehicle

ZA Leman, MHM Ariff, H Zamzuri… - 2019 12th Asian …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Some challenging control design problems include non-linear vehicle dynamics, fast
sampling time and limited computing resources on automated hardware. MPC has the ability …

Analysis of alternative flat representations of a UAV for trajectory generation and tracking

HT Do, I Prodan, F Stoican - 2021 25th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning problems benefit greatly from the properties of differential flatness, which
are widely employed for trajectory generation and controller design. This paper aims to …

Path following control of automated guided vehicle based on model predictive control with state classification model and smooth transition strategy

X Weng, J Zhang, Y Ma - International journal of automotive technology, 2021 - Springer
Path following control of the automatic guided vehicle (AGV) for material handling in the
plant requires a smooth and high-precision continuous attitude adjustment. However, there …

Optimal Path and Path-Following Control in Airborne Wind Energy Systems

MCRM Fernandes, LT Paiva, FACC Fontes - Advances in Evolutionary …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract An Airborne Wind Energy System (AWES) is a concept to convert wind energy into
electricity, which comprises a tethered aircraft connected to a ground station. These systems …

Sampled–data model predictive control using adaptive time–mesh refinement algorithms

LT Paiva, FACC Fontes - CONTROLO 2016: Proceedings of the 12th …, 2017 - Springer
We address sampled–data nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) schemes, in particular
we address methods to efficiently and accurately solve the underlying continuous-time …

Multi-layer optimization-based control design for quadcopter trajectory tracking

NT Nguyen, I Prodan, L Lefevre - 2017 25th Mediterranean …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the trajectory tracking problem of a quadcopter system through a two-
layer optimization-based control strategy. The top layer controller employs the MPC (Model …