Amélia Caldeira, docente do Departamento de Matemática e investigadora no Laboratório de Engenharia Matemática, vai apresentar o artigo Model Predictive Control for Path-following of Nonholonomic Systems na conferência Controlo 2010

A comunicação resulta do seu projecto sobre modelos de previsão financiada pela Fundação para Ciência e a Tecnologia e o Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional.

Model Predictive Control for Path-following of Nonholonomic Systems

In this article we discuss the use of Model Predictive Control (MPC) to address the problem of path-following of nonholonomic systems. We argue that MPC can solve this problem in a effective and relatively easy way, and has several advantages relative to alternative approaches. We address the path-following problem by converting it into a trajectory-tracking problem and determine the speed profile at which the path is followed inside the optimization problems solved in the MPC algorithm.
The MPC framework will solve a sequence of optimization problems that will find an initial point, a speed profile, and a feedback control to track the trajectory of a virtual reference vehicle, i.e., the MPC framework will find a feedback control to follow the path given.
The method is illustrated in a simple differential-drive mobile robot.

A Controlo 2010 realiza-se em Coimbra, entre 8-10 de Setembro.

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