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Marine vehicle path following using inner-outer loop control.

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Title Marine vehicle path following using inner-outer loop control.
 
Creator Maurya, P.K.
Agular, A.P.
Pascoal, A.M.
 
Subject unmanned vehicles
ship motion
manoeuvrability
navigation underwater
autopilots
direction finding
dynamic positioning
 
Description This paper addresses the problem of marine vehicle path following using innerouter loop control, with due account for the vehicle dynamics. We propose an inner-outer control structure that lends itself to a simple intuitive interpretation and exhibits three key advantages: i) it allows for decoupling in the design of the inner and outer control loops, ii) the design of the outer loop controller does not require in depth knowledge of the internal vehicle dynamics, and iii) it affords practitioners a very convenient method to effectively implement path following controllers on a wide range of vehicles. The mathematical tools used for systems characterization and stability analysis borrow from Input to Output Stability (IOS) theory and small gain theorems. In this paper, formal system analysis is done only for the case where the paths to be followed are straight lines. However, the technical machinery developed and the results obtained shed light into the process of designing path following controllers with an inner-outer loop structure for arbitrary paths. The efficacy of the path following control structure developed has been proven during tests with an AUV and an ASV at sea
 
Date 2014-04-01T04:26:05Z
2014-04-01T04:26:05Z
2009
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier 8th IFAC International Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft 2009, September 16-18, 2009, Guaruja - Brazil. 6 pp.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/4488
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [2009]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher IFAC International Conference