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Adaptive sliding-mode path following control system of the underactuated USV under the influence of ocean currents

Journal

JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 1271-1283

Publisher

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & ELECTRONICS, EDITORIAL DEPT
DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.06.14

Keywords

sliding-mode control; unmanned surface vehicle (USV); integral line-of-sight (ILOS); path following; proof of stability

Funding

  1. National Social Science Foundation of China [15GJ003-278]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [71501182]

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The path-following control of the asymmetry underactuated unmanned surface vehicle (USV) under external disturbances such as unknown constant and irrational ocean currents is discussed, and an adaptive sliding-mode path-following control system is proposed, which comprises a path-variable updated law, a modified integral line-of-sight (ILOS) guidance law based on a time-varying lookahead distance and adaptive feedback linearizing controllers combined with sliding-mode technique. A more accurate USV model without the assumption of having diagonal inertia and damping matrices is first presented, aiming at improving the performance of the path-following control. Next, the coordinate transformation is adopted to decouple the sway dynamic from the rudder angle, and the path-following errors dynamics without non-singular problem are presented in the moving Frenet-Serret frame. Then, based on the cascaded theorem and the adaptive sliding-mode method, the adaptive control law of position errors and course error are designed, among which the lookahead distance and integral gain are all computed as different functions of cross-track error to estimate and compensate the sideslip angle caused by external disturbances adaptively. Finally, according to the Lyapunov and cascaded theorem, the control system proposed is proved to be uniform globally asymptotic stability (UGAS) and uniform semiglobal exponential stability (USGES) when the control objectives are all achieved. Simulation results illustrate the precision and high-quality performance of this new controller.

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