This paper concentrates on the discussions on stabilization of mobile robot
s with unknown constant-input disturbance. Continuous time-varying adaptive
controllers are designed for mobile robots in a chain-form by using Lyapun
ov approach. With the property of homogeneous systems, uncertain mobile rob
ots governed by the proposed control algorithms become homogeneous of order
0 to achieve exponential stability Simulation results validate the theoret
ical analysis. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.