Embedded Control for Mobile Robotic Applications

In Embedded Control for Mobile Robotic Applications, a distinguished trio of researchers delivers an authoritative and fulsome resource for understanding embedded control and robotics. The book includes coverage of a variety of embedded platforms, their use in controller implementation, stability analyses of designed controllers, and two new approaches for designing embedded controllers.

The authors offer a full chapter on Field-Programmable-Gate-Array (FPGA) architecture development for controller design that is perfect for both practitioners and students taking robotics courses and provide a companion website that includes MATLAB codes for simulation and embedded platform-specific code for mobile robotic applications (in Embedded C and Verilog).

The two approaches discussed by the authors―the top-down methodology and the bottom-up methodology―are of immediate practical utility to both practicing professionals in the field and students studying control applications and mobile robotics. The book also offers:

• A thorough introduction to embedded control, including processor, IC, and design technology, as well as a discussion of limitations in embedded control design
• Comprehensive explorations of the bottom-up and top-down methods, including computations using CORDIC, interval arithmetic, sliding surface design, and switched nonlinear systems
• Practical discussions of generic FPGA architecture design, including Verilog, PID controllers, DC motors and Encoder, and a systematic approach for designing architecture using FSMD
• In-depth examinations of discrete-time controller design, including the approximation to discrete-time transfer function and embedded implementation stability

Perfect for practitioners working in embedded control design and control applications in robotics, Embedded Control for Mobile Robotic Applications will also earn a place in the libraries of academicians, researchers, senior undergraduate students, and graduate students in these fields.

Leena Vachhani, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. Leena Vachhani received the Ph.D. degree from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in 2009. Since Dec, 2009 she has been with the Systems and Control Engineering Group of IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. Her research interests include hardware/software codesign for mobile robots, sensors for robotic tasks, robot motion planning algorithms, multiagent mapping and patrolling applications.

Pranjal Vyas, Advanced Remanufacturing Technology Center, Agency of Science, Technology and Research, (A*STAR), Singapore. Pranjal Vyas received his Ph.D. in Systems and Control Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India in 2017. His research interests include mobile robotics, real time embedded systems, sensors for robotic tasks, robot motion planning algorithms, computer vision and machine learning.

Arunkumar G. K. is a Research Scholar with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. His research is focused on robotic path planning algorithms and multi-robot systems.