Study on optimal steering control of an unmanned cart

無人 搬送車의 最適 操向制御

An optimal control procedure is presented for steering of an unmanned cart which has two motored wheels on its left and right side. Steering, running and stopping are enabled by controlling the motor speed independently. An optimal proportional-plus-integral control is employed to eliminate steady state error which is sustained by a simple proportional control for tracking a circular arc path. A simple and readily-implemented suboptimal control is also examined. The suboptimal control gives comparable performance and therefore provides an effective approach for industrial application of the unmanned cart. Effects of design parameters of unmanned cart such as forward velocity, wheel radius and position of sensor are investigated. It is shown that within the practicable values of the parameters the controlled performance improves rapidly with increase of those parameters then the improvement becomes negligible, which suggests base values over which the parameters should be taken.

본 논문에서는 이와 같은 형식의 무인 반송차(이하무인차로 줄임)의 최적조향 제어를 연구하였다. 단순한 비예제어(proportional control, P-control)만으로는 정 상편차(steady state error)를 없앨 수 없으므로 본 연구에서는 최적 비예 및 적분제 어(PROPORTIONAL-PLUSINTEGRAL CONTROL, pi-CONTROL) 방식을 채택하였다. 간단하고 실현이 쉬운 부최적제어(Suboptimal Control)도 고찰하였으며 최적제어의 경우와 비교 검토하였다. 또 한 무인차의 주요 설계변수가 제어성능에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 비교 검토하여 그 설정기준을 고찰하였다.