4.6 Article

Design and Experimental Validation of an Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer-Based Fault-Tolerant Control for Underwater Vehicles

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 2655-2662

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2018.2870829

Keywords

Observers; Estimation error; Underwater vehicles; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Sea measurements; Velocity measurement; Fault-tolerant control; finite-time estimation; sliding mode observer; underwater vehicles; validation results

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51679054]
  2. China Scholarship Council [201606680036]

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Cost and other practically related reasons can mean that velocity sensors are not available on an underwater vehicle. For such cases, the results in this brief are developed on an observer-based fault-tolerant control for underwater vehicles in the presence of external disturbances and unknown thruster faults. An adaptive sliding mode observer is developed to achieve finite-time convergence where, in comparison to a high-gain-based design for the observer, a nonlinear feedback is constructed based on the position estimation error. Unlike alternatives, a discontinuity term in the developed fault tolerant controller is avoided, and the stability of the controlled dynamics is characterized using the Lyapunov theory. Finally, these new results are supported by both a simulation-based study and experimental verification.

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