System Identification and Controller Design of a Novel Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

• Published in: Machines
• Main Authors: Baoju Wu, Xiaowei Han, Nanmu Hui
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV); Arctic AUV; mathematical model; system parameter identification; control scheme; Mechanical engineering and machinery; TJ1-1570; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/machines9060109; https://doaj.org/article/bad7fab8941e4b0091b3dea41b2feddc

Autonomous underwater vehicle is an effective tool for humans to explore the ocean. It can be used for the monitoring of underwater structures and facilities, which puts forward more accurate and stable requirements for the system operation of the autonomous underwater vehicle. This paper studies the system and structural design, including the parameter identification design and control system design, of a novel autonomous underwater vehicle called “Arctic AUV”. The dynamic mathematical model of the “Arctic AUV” was established, and the system parameter identification method based on the multi-sensor least squares centralized fusion algorithm was proposed. The simplification of the mathematical model of the robot was theoretically derived, and the online parameter identification and motion control were combined, so that the robot could cope with the influence of the arctic water velocity and external turbulence. Based on the hybrid control scheme of adaptive PID and predictive control, the accurate motion control of the “Arctic AUV” was realized. A prototype of “Arctic AUV” was developed, and system parameter identification experiments were carried out in indoor pool water. Hybrid adaptive and predictive control experiments were also carried out. The validity of the parametric design method in this paper was verified, and by comparative experiment, the effect of the control method proposed in this paper was better than the traditional method.