Modeling and Control of Negative-Buoyancy Tri-Tilt-Rotor Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Based on Immersion and Invariance Methodology

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Abstract
Spot hover and high speed capabilities of underwater vehicles are essential for ocean exploring, however, few vehicles have these two features. Moreover, the motion of underwater vehicles is prone to be affected by the unknown hydrodynamics. This paper presents a novel negative-buoyancy autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with tri-tilt-rotor to obtain these two features. A detailed mathematical model is derived, which is then decoupled to altitude and attitude subsystems. For controlling the underwater vehicle, an attitude error model is designed for the attitude subsystem, and an adaptive nonlinear controller is proposed for the attitude error model based on immersion and invariance methodology. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller, a three degrees of freedom (DOF) testbed is developed, and the performance of the controller is validated through a real-time experiment.
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  • National Natural Science Foundation of the National Research and Development of major scientific instruments (41427806)
  • State Oceanic Administration People's Republic of China and National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2012AA092103)

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