A new form of waypoint navigation controller for a skid-steer vehicle is presented, which consisted of a multiple input-single output nonlinear fuzzy angular velocity controller. The mem- bership functions of the fuzzy controller employed a trape- zoidal structure with a completely symmetric rule-base. No- tably, Hierarchical Rule-Base Reduction (HRBR) was incorpo- rated into the controller to select only the rules most influen- tial on state errors. This was done by selecting inputs/outputs and generating a hierarchy of inputs using a Fuzzy Relations Control Strategy (FRCS). Similar to some traditional fuzzy con- trollers, the system provided coverage for the global operat- ing environment. However, a rule for every possible combi- nation of variables and states was no longer necessary. Con- sequently, HRBR fuzzy controllers effectively increase both the number of inputs and their associated fidelity without the rule-base dramatically increasing. To contextualize the performance of the controller, a background on vehicle dy- namic modeling methodologies and an in-depth explanation of the related simulation model are provided. An examina- tion of the proposed controller is then completed employing test courses. The test courses examine the effects of steer- ing disturbance, phase lag, and overshoot as expressed in Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Max Error (ME), and Course Completion Time (CCT). Finally, simulation and experimental results for the controller’s performance were compared with a state-of-the-art waypoint navigation vehicle controller, ge- ometric pure pursuit. The fuzzy was found to outperform the pure pursuit experimentally by 52.1 percent in RMSE, 26.8 percent in ME, and 1.07 percent in CCT, on average, validat- ing the viability of the controller.
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