relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1207/ title: Time-optimal sliding-mode control of a mobile robot in a dynamic environment creator: Rubagotti, Matteo creator: Della Vedova, Marco L. creator: Ferrara, Antonella subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science subject: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery description: In this study, an original strategy to control a mobile robot in a dynamic environment is presented. The strategy consists of two main elements. The first is the method for the online trajectory generation based on harmonic potential fields, capable of generating velocity and orientation references, which extends classical results on harmonic potential fields for the case of static environments to the case when the presence of a moving obstacle with unknown motion is considered. The second is the design of sliding-mode controllers capable of making the controlled variables of the robot track in a finite minimum time both the velocity and the orientation references. publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) date: 2011-10 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Rubagotti, Matteo and Della Vedova, Marco L. and Ferrara, Antonella Time-optimal sliding-mode control of a mobile robot in a dynamic environment. IET Control Theory and Applications, 5 (16). 1916 -1924. ISSN 1751-8644 (2011) relation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6042770&isnumber=6042759 relation: 10.1049/iet-cta.2010.0678