Rapid Prototyping of Mobile Robot Control Algorithms

The design of control algorithms for mobile robots has been always a big challenge, due to the complexity of control techniques and the difficulty that this represents when trying to implement them in the robots software. This thesis work presents a method to establish communication and control of a mobile robot from Matlab/Simulink platform. The robot used is an undergoing project from the Department of Control Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Furthermore, this work presents performance tests and analysis of control algorithms implemented to test communication link and controllability of the system, from which a set of conclusions and recommendations are given.Validerat; 20140715 (global_studentproject_submitter