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Introducing an innovative hybrid control structure for a fully-actuated unmanned marine vehicle
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Ali Abooee *   |
| Department of Electrical Engineering, Yazd University , Aliabooee@yazd.ac.ir |
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Abstract: (16603 Views) |
In this paper, the finite-time path tracking problem for a typical fully-actuated unmanned marine vehicle subject to unknown physical constants, modelling uncertainties, and environmental disturbance forces (generated by sea waves) is studied and discussed. To deal and handle the mentioned tracking problem, a novel hybrid control structure (based on the finite-time adaptive-robust approach) is proposed. First, a comprehensive model is extracted and introduced to describe kinematic and dynamic behaviors of the unmanned marine vehicle. In this model, all physical constants of the unmanned marine vehicle are assumed to be unknown. Also, modelling uncertainties and unknown environmental disturbance forces are considered as a lumped vector term added to the right side of the comprehensive model. To overcome with parametric uncertainties, all terms of the left side of the comprehensive model, which include unknown physical constants, are converted to the parametric linear regression form. Second, by developing the terminal sliding mode control method, defining several types of innovative nonlinear sliding manifolds, and designing adaptation laws, a novel adaptive-robust nonlinear control structure is proposed to exactly steer the unmanned marine vehicle (in the existence of aforementioned unwanted factors) to the desired trajectory within an adjustable finite time. Time responses related to the estimation of unknown physical constants will precisely converge to the fixed values after the finite time which are not identical to the nominal values of physical constants. Third, by utilizing mathematical analysis (based on the Lyapunov stability theorem), it is proven that the proposed hybrid control approach is able to both accomplish the path tracking objective and guarantee the global finite-time stability for the closed-loop unmanned marine vehicle. Moreover, the stability analysis demonstrates that the convergence finite time is the summation of two smaller finite time (called reaching and settling times) and these times could be determined by two novel separate inequalities. Finally, by using MATLAB software, the introduced adaptive-robust nonlinear control approach is simulated onto the Cybership II and simulation results demonstrate that the finite-time path tracking aim is appropriately fulfilled and satisfied. |
Article number: 6 |
| Keywords: Unmanned marine vehicle, Global finite-time stability, Terminal sliding mode control, hybrid control structure, Adaptive-robust nonlinear controller. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Hybrid Control Systems
Received: 2022/10/27 | Accepted: 2023/03/17 | Published: 2023/05/16
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