TY - CHAP Y1 - 1997/// CY - San Diego, December 1997 SP - 3063 PB - IEEE A1 - Bemporad, Alberto A1 - Di Marco, Mauro A1 - Tesi, Alberto EP - 3068 T2 - Decision and Control Conference ID - eprints602 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=657920&isnumber=14225 KW - Convergence; Infrared sensors; Merging; Mobile robots; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Sensor fusion; Sonar; Velocity control; Wheels TI - Wall-following controllers for sonar-based mobile robots AV - none N2 - For mobile robots equipped with incremental encoders and one sonar sensor this paper presents wall-following controllers that achieve global convergence, as well as the fulfillment of constraints on the orientation of the sonar and the velocities of the wheels. A sensor fusion approach for the estimation of the robot's coordinates is adopted by designing an extended Kalman filter that combines ultrasonic and odometric data M1 - 3 SN - 0-7803-4187-2 ER -