Fault tolerant control for an autonomous underwater vehicle to dock with thruster redundancy

Fuqiang Liu, Demin Xu, Jian Gao, Rongxin Cui

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Abstract

This paper investigates the fault tolerant control (FTC) for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with thruster redundancy while the AUV is commanded to dock into a station. A Dubins curve is predefined as an optimal docking path for the AUV to follow and a group of azimuth thrusters are equipped on the AUV to deal with the uncertain faults and failures occurred on the rudders and thrusters. Based on the vehicle kinematics and dynamics, a path-following controller with the optimized FTC input generated from the Quadratic Programming (QP) process is adopted to carry out the docking mission while any fault or failure occurs. Simulation of an AUV with four azimuth thrusters to dock shows that the FTC induces satisfactory docking result while faults occur on the rudders and thrusters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 32nd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages6186-6190
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9789881563835
StatePublished - 18 Oct 2013
Event32nd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2013 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 26 Jul 201328 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameChinese Control Conference, CCC
ISSN (Print)1934-1768
ISSN (Electronic)2161-2927

Conference

Conference32nd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period26/07/1328/07/13

Keywords

  • Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)
  • Docking
  • Dubins curve
  • Fault tolerant control (FTC)
  • Path following
  • Quadratic programming (QP)
  • Redundancy

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