A Time Domain Passivity Controller for Teleoperation of Four Wheeled Differential Mobile Robot on Slippery Surface

Abstract

Four wheeled differential mobile robots have been widely used in many fields. However, on the slippery surfaces (e.g., marble floor), the tire-terrain contact surfaces may induce phenomena of slipping especially when it turns, which brings big challenges for its teleoperation. Aiming at this difficulty, a time-domain passive controller (TDPC) is proposed in this study to compensate for the active energy generated by the environment termination induced by the tire-terrain interaction, and then a stable teleoperator is designed under the coordination of master robot's position and slave robot's velocity. Experiments with a commercial four wheeled mobile robots on the marble floor are conducted to validate the proposed approach.