A novel interception and trajectory tracking control approach for a mobile robot

• Date: 2026
• Main Authors: Ben Hadj Mohamed, S., Mahjoub, A., Ben Njima, C., Benamor, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" and Аnatolii Pidhornyi Institute of Power Machines and Systems of NAS of Ukraine 2026
• Subjects: trajectory tracking; mobile robot; sliding mode control; backstepping control; particle swarm optimization
• Online Access: https://eie.khpi.edu.ua/article/view/344442
• Journal Title: Electrical Engineering & Electromechanics

Introduction. In nature, interception is a hunting strategy where a predator moves to a point ahead of a moving prey’s trajectory to catch it, rather than directly pursuing it. Also, in transportation and manufacturing sectors, trajectory interception is carried out by the correspondence of the posi...