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Adaptive Fuzzy Trajectory Tracking Control of an Under-Actuated Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Subject to Actuator Saturation

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This paper focuses on vertical-plane trajectory tracking of an under-actuated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) subject to actuator saturation and external disturbances. A successive guidance and control frame is designed to avoid the cascade analysis between the kinematics guidance and the dynamics control, and the complete Lyapunov function is chosen to analyze the asymptotic stability of trajectory tracking system. In the guidance loop, the line-of-sight guidance law is applied to trajectory tracking of AUVs, which transforms the depth tracking error into the elevation angle tracking error and solves the problem of the under-actuated configuration in heave. In the control loop, direct adaptive fuzzy control is adopted to compensate for the effect of actuator saturation, which guarantees the system stability of trajectory tracking in the presence of actuator saturation. Finally, comparative numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the robust and bounded performance of the designed trajectory tracking control system.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (under Grant 51579111 and 51209100), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (under Grant 2017KFYXJJ005), State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering (under Grant 1504) and International Exchanges of the UK Royal Society (under Grant IE161588).

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Yu, C., Xiang, X., Zhang, Q. et al. Adaptive Fuzzy Trajectory Tracking Control of an Under-Actuated Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Subject to Actuator Saturation. Int. J. Fuzzy Syst. 20, 269–279 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40815-017-0396-9

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