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Fuzzy Model Identification and Trajectory Control for Agricultural Tractor Robots: An Optimal Hybrid Methodology

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Angel de Jesus Castro-Romero
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Julio C. Ramos-Fernández *
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Marco Antonio Márquez-Vera
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Juan M. Xicoténcatl-Pérez
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Salatiel Garcia Nava
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Jorge A. Ruíz-Vanoye
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Sébastien Paris
DOI:10.3390/make8080240delete
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Autonomous agricultural robots require accurate trajectory tracking to perform precision field operations such as seeding, fertilization, and pruning. Classical kinematic models fail to capture the nonlinear dynamics inherent to real field conditions, limiting the performance of model-based control strategies. This work proposes an optimal hybrid methodology integrating Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy model identification and Pure Pursuit (PP) control within a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) framework for a simulated pruning tractor. Data-driven T–S fuzzy models for incremental displacements M Δ x and M Δ y are identified using Fuzzy C-Means and parameterized via PSO. These fuzzy models are embedded in a PP feedback control scheme with discrete-time PI velocity and PD steering controllers, whose four gains are tuned by a second PSO instance. The fuzzy models achieve identification Root-Mean-Square Errors (RMSEs) of 10.598 × 10−3 m and 8.125 × 10−3 m. Integrated into the control loop, the system yields a lateral RMSE of 6.6 × 10−3 m on the training path and generalizes effectively across twelve complex agricultural coverage trajectories, maintaining a lateral RMSE below 12 × 10−3 m and heading RMSE under 1 degree. This interpretable, fuzzy rule-based approach provides an accurate and replicable simulation baseline for future experimental implementation on physical platforms.
Keywords:
C-Means clustering
knowledge extraction
Particle Swarm Optimization
precision agriculture
Pure Pursuit control
T–S fuzzy model

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Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
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Universidad Politécnica de Pachuca
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universite de toulon and cnrs
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