An Embedded Hardware for Implementation of a Tracking Control in WMRs

The implementation of a hierarchical controller for the trajectory tracking control of a wheeled mobile robot (WMR) is presented in this work. The experimental development of such a controller is performed with the low-cost embedded hardware Jetson TK1 from NVIDIA. In the programming of the controller, free license software with short learning curve is used. To validate the performance of the embedded hardware, a comparison between the results obtained from the WMR in closed-loop is presented when using: a) the embedded hardware Jetson TK1 and b) the fast prototyping DS1104 board from dSPACE. The experimental results show that the Jetson TK1 board could be suitable for the control of autonomous mechatronic systems.