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This paper presents a control algorithm for a differential-drive robot following a path. The main contributions are: a new control formulation that does not require the robot global position, and a nonlinear controller based on the sliding mode control approach that guarantees stability in both forward and backward motion. Numerical simulations are provided to validate the proposed algorithm.