Robust Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in the Presence of Disturbance Inputs

Author(s):  
S. Singh ◽  
A. Sanyal ◽  
R. Smith ◽  
N. Nordkvist ◽  
M. Chyba

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is expected to operate in an ocean in the presence of poorly known disturbance forces and moments. The uncertainties of the environment makes it difficult to apply open-loop control scheme for the motion planning of the vehicle. The objective of this paper is to develop a robust feedback trajectory tracking control scheme for an AUV that can track a prescribed trajectory amidst such disturbances. We solve a general problem of feedback trajectory tracking of an AUV in SE (3). The feedback control scheme is derived using Lyapunov-type analysis. The results obtained from numerical simulations confirm the asymptotic tracking properties of the feedback control law. We apply the feedback control scheme to different mission scenarios, with the disturbances being initial errors in the state of the AUV.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaofeng Che ◽  
Zhen Yu

Abstract This paper investigates trajectory-tacking control problem for underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) with unknown dynamics. Different from existing adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) schemes, our proposed control scheme can achieve high-level system stability and tracking control accuracy. Firstly, the backstepping approach is introduced into the kinematic model of underactuated AUV and produces a virtual velocity control which is taken as the desired velocity input of the dynamic model of underactuated AUV. Secondly, the error tracking system is constructed according to the dynamic model of underactuated AUV. Thirdly, the critic neural network and the action neural network are employed to transform the trajectory-tracking control problem into optimal control problem based on policy iteration algorithm. At last simulation results are given to verify the effectiveness of the control scheme proposed in this paper.


Author(s):  
P. R. Ouyang ◽  
B. A. Petz ◽  
F. F. Xi

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a simple and effective technique of tracking control aiming at improving system tracking performance from trial to trial in a repetitive mode. In this paper, we propose a new ILC called switching gain PD-PD (SPD-PD)-type ILC for trajectory tracking control of time-varying nonlinear systems with uncertainty and disturbance. In the developed control scheme, a PD feedback control with switching gains in the iteration domain and a PD-type ILC based on the previous iteration combine together into one updating law. The proposed SPD-PD ILC takes the advantages of feedback control and classical ILC and can also be viewed as online-offline ILC. It is theoretically proven that the boundednesses of the state error and the final tracking error are guaranteed in the presence of uncertainty, disturbance, and initialization error of the nonlinear systems. The convergence rate is adjustable by the adoption of the switching gains in the iteration domain. Simulation experiments are conducted for trajectory tracking control of a nonlinear system and a robotic system. The results show that fast convergence and small tracking error bounds can be observed by using the SPD-PD-type ILC.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Shijie Zhang ◽  
Yi Ning

The mathematic description of the trajectory of robot manipulators with the optimal trajectory tracking problem is formulated as an optimal control problem, and a parametric approach is proposed for the optimal trajectory tracking control problem. The optimal control problem is first solved as an open loop optimal control problem by using a time scaling transform and the control parameterization method. Then, by virtue of the relationship between the optimal open loop control and the optimal closed loop control along the optimal trajectory, a practical method is presented to calculate an approximate optimal feedback gain matrix, without having to solve an optimal control problem involving the complex Riccati-like matrix differential equation coupled with the original system dynamics. Simulation results of 2-link robot manipulator are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.


2011 ◽  
Vol 328-330 ◽  
pp. 2108-2112
Author(s):  
Jing Shuang Lu ◽  
Chun Mei Du ◽  
Rui Zhou ◽  
Na Li

A simple dynamics model is established based on the two-link flexible manipulator moving within the vertical plane, and a robust simple control scheme is put forward. The advantages of this scheme are simple and good robustness. Only the error signal is needed when designing the control scheme and the acquirement of control signal does not depend on the system model. The simulation results show that this method has a good robustness and stability.


Author(s):  
Yuanhui Wang ◽  
Haibin Wang ◽  
Mingyu Fu

This paper investigates concentrates on the trajectory tracking control problem of dynamic positioning (DP) ship, in the presence of the time-varying disturbance and input saturation. Firstly, a simplified mathematical model of three degrees of freedom is established. According to the characteristics of the DP ship, an adaptive backstepping controller which combine the prescribed performance function with disturbance observer is proposed. The control scheme can guarantee the transient and steady state performance of the trajectory tracking and meet the prescribed performance criteria. In addition, an auxiliary dynamic system is introduced into the controller to deal with the input saturation problem of the actuator, so that the DP ship can accomplish the task of trajectory tracking under the condition of actuator constraint. Subsequently, in combination of barrier Lyapunov function (BLF), it is proved that the DP system can stabilize and converge rapidly to the small neighborhood of the equilibrium point, which can achieve the prescribed performance. Finally, the effectiveness of the DP control law is demonstrated by a series of simulation experiments.


1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Sakawa ◽  
A. Nakazumi

In this paper we first derive a dynamical model for the control of a rotary crane, which makes three kinds of motion (rotation, load hoisting, and boom hoisting) simultaneously. The goal is to transfer a load to a desired place in such a way that at the end of transfer the swing of the load decays as quickly as possible. We first apply an open-loop control input to the system such that the state of the system can be transferred to a neighborhood of the equilibrium state. Then we apply a feedback control signal so that the state of the system approaches the equilibrium state as quickly as possible. The results of computer simulation prove that the open-loop plus feedback control scheme works well.


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