Cruise Control for a Two-Wheeled Mobile Vehicle Using Its Mixed Logical Dynamical System Model

This paper proposes a cruise control for a two-wheeled mobile vehicle on a two-dimensional plane. The cruise control is executed using model predictive control (MPC), such that input and state constraints can be addressed explicitly. For real-time execution of MPC, we model the dynamics of the vehicle as a mixed logical dynamical system rather than an underlying nonlinear model. The cruise control is then reduced to a mixed integer quadratic programming problem, for which efficient solvers using the convexities are available. Simulations and experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed cruise control through a computation time comparison with the nonlinear MPC method.