Biology-Inspired Robust Dive Plane Control of Nonlinear AUV Using Pectoral-Like Fins

Authors

Subramanian Ramasamy, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Sahjendra N. Singh, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2010

Publication Title

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Volume

7

Issue

2

First page number:

153

Last page number:

168

Abstract

The development of a control system for the dive plane control of non-linear biorobotic autonomous underwater vehicles, equipped with pectoral-like fins, is the subject of this paper. Marine animals use pectoral fins for swimming smoothly. The fins are assumed to be oscillating with a combined pitch and heave motion and therefore produce unsteady control forces. The objective is to control the depth of the vehicle. The mean angle of pitch motion of the fin is used as a control variable. A computational-fluid-dynamics-based parameterisation of the fin forces is used for control system design. A robust servo regulator for the control of the depth of the vehicle, based on the non-linear internal model principle, is derived. For the control law derivation, an exosystem of third order is introduced, and the non-linear time-varying biorobotic autonomous underwater vehicle model, including the fin forces, is represented as a non-linear autonomous system in an extended state space. The control system includes the internal model of a k-fold exosystem, where k is a positive integer chosen by the designer. It is shown that in the closed-loop system, all the harmonic components of order up to k of the tracking error are suppressed. Simulation results are presented which show that the servo regulator accomplishes accurate depth control despite uncertainties in the model parameters.

Keywords

Hydrodynamics; Non-linear biorobotic autonomous underwater vehicle control; Non-linear internal model principle; Non-linear servo regulation; Pectoral fin control system; Robust output regulation; Submersibles – Control systems; Submersibles — Stability

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Repository Citation

Ramasamy, S., Singh, S. N. (2010). Biology-Inspired Robust Dive Plane Control of Nonlinear AUV Using Pectoral-Like Fins. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 7(2), 153-168.