New Control Paradigms for Resources Saving: An Approach for Mobile Robots Navigation

• Main Authors: Rafael Socas, Raquel Dormido, Sebastián Dormido
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-01-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: event-based control; Networked Control Systems (NCS); resources efficiency; mobile robots; robot navigation
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/1/281

In this work, an event-based control scheme is presented. The proposed system has been developed to solve control problems appearing in the field of Networked Control Systems (NCS). Several models and methodologies have been proposed to measure different resources consumptions. The use of bandwidth, computational load and energy resources have been investigated. This analysis shows how the parameters of the system impacts on the resources efficiency. Moreover, the proposed system has been compared with its equivalent discrete-time solution. In the experiments, an application of NCS for mobile robots navigation has been set up and its resource usage efficiency has been analysed.