Research Article

Robust Adaptive Stabilization of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Bounded Disturbances

Table 1

Definition of parameters of mobile robot.

SymbolsDescription

Mass of body
Mass of wheel with a motor
Moment of inertia of the body about the vertical axis through Pc
Moment of inertia of the wheel with a motor about the wheel axis
Moment of inertia of the wheel with a motor about the diameter
Half width of the mobile robot
Radius of the wheel
, Damping coefficients
Velocities of the left and right wheels
Control torques applied to the wheels
External disturbance