Obstacle Avoidance Problem for Second Degree Nonholonomic Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new control design scheme for solving the obstacle avoidance problem for nonlinear driftless control-affine systems. The class of systems under consideration satisfies controllability conditions with iterated Lie brackets up to the second order. The time-varying control strategy is defined explicitly in terms of the gradient of a potential function. It is shown that the limit behavior of the closed-loop system is characterized by the set of critical points of the potential function. The proposed control design method can be used under rather general assumptions on potential functions, and particular applications with navigation functions are illustrated by numerical examples.

arXiv commentThis is the author's accepted version of the paper to appear in: 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), (c) IEEE

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