Robot Trajectory Tracking
Overview
Robot trajectory tracking studies how a robot can follow a desired path or time-varying motion, which is essential for tasks such as manipulation, navigation, flight, and locomotion. Common approaches include feedback control such as PID, backstepping, and sliding-mode methods; model-predictive control; and adaptive, learning-based, and iterative-learning controllers that compensate for uncertain dynamics or repeated errors. Work spans mobile robots, aerial vehicles, manipulators, soft robots, and humanoids, with attention to sensing, actuator limits, collision avoidance, and real-time computation. A central challenge is balancing precise tracking with robustness and safety when models, terrain, payloads, contact, or reference motions change.
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