This paper proposes a hybrid control algorithm with sliding sectors for the control of a wheeled mobile robot (WMR), which is a non-holonomic system. The WMR control system with a set of available or pre-designed control laws is considered as a hybrid system with a set of subsystems. The WMR with one of control laws forms a non-linear subsystem of the hybrid system. The subsystems may be unstable but for each subsystem of the hybrid system, a stable subset called a sliding sector is designed such that a Lyapunov function candidate decreases inside the sliding sector. The hybrid control rule is used to stabilize the WMR control system by switching the hybrid system among its subsystems such that the system is always inside a sliding sector of some subsystem. The proposed hybrid sliding sector control algorithm has been successfully implemented to the real-time control of WMR with good control performance.
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