Robust adaptive control of underwater vehicles: A comparative study

Robust Adaptive Control of Underwater Vehicles: a Comparative Study

Robust adaptive control of underwater vehicles in 6 DOF is analyzed in the context of measurement noise. The performance of the adaptive control laws of Sadegh and Horowitz (1990) and Slotine and Benedetto (1990) are compared. Both these schemes require that all states are measured, that is the velocities and positions in surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch and yaw. However, for underwater vehicles...

Adaptive Robust Control for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous underwater Vehicles on Horizontal Plane

This manuscript addresses trajectory tracking problem of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) on the horizontal plane. Adaptive sliding mode control is employed in order to achieve a robust behavior against some uncertainty and ocean current disturbances, assuming that disturbance and its derivative are bounded by unknown boundary levels. The proposed approach is based on a dual layer adaptive...

Robust control of autonomous underwater vehicles

My work is included in the framework of the FeedNetBack project. The objective of the project isthe collaborative control of several autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). The first step of thisfinal year project is the realization of an efficient Matlab/Simulink model of the submersible, basedon Ifremer (marine vehicle constructor) data. Thus, the aim is to control the vehicle b...

Adaptive Control for Guidance of Underwater Vehicles

Adaptive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

We describe a novel integration of Planning with Probabilistic State Estimation and Execution. The resulting system is a unified representational and computational framework based on declarative models and constraintbased temporal plans. The work is motivated by the need to explore the oceans more cost-effectively through the use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), requiring them to be goa...