Control of mobile robots is considered a new research that deals with several sides such as mechanical, physical and control, as well as the software side. The importance of this project is to present a new control strategy of mobile robots, such path tracking and obstacle avoidance. The aspects that will be covered in this project are: The hardware structure of a mobile robot, the low-level control of mobile robot and the high level control strategies the direction of motion of mobile robot, the path following/ tracking and obstacle avoidance controller.
The methodology of this project is to understand and build a simulation model for every hardware component of a mobile robot ,also to design low-level controller for the driving DC motors of the robot ,and building a complete simulation in Matlab and simulink software as soon as , designing a navigation controllers for the mobile robot taking into account path following and obstacle avoidance.
Several research has been done and still going at both universities and industry of controlling mobile robots.