Robust adaptive control of nonholonomic mobile robot with parameter and nonparameter uncertainties

This paper considers the tracking-control problem of a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot with both parameter and nonparameter uncertainties. A robust adaptive controller is proposed with the aid of the adaptive backstepping technique and the learning ability of neural networks. The proposed controller guarantees that the tracking error converges to a small ball containing the origin. The ball's radius can be adjusted by control parameters. The proposed controller is successfully implemented in our simulator.