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Trajectory Tracking and Re-planning with Model Predictive Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2018

Zhen Hu ,
Daqi Zhu Open the ORCID record for Daqi Zhu [Opens in a new window] ,
Caicha Cui  and
Bing Sun
Zhen Hu
Affiliation:
(China Ship Scientific Research Center, Wuxi, China)
Daqi Zhu*
Affiliation:
(Laboratory of Underwater Vehicles and Intelligent Systems, Shanghai Maritime University, Haigang Avenue 1550, Shanghai, 201306, China)
Caicha Cui
Affiliation:
(Laboratory of Underwater Vehicles and Intelligent Systems, Shanghai Maritime University, Haigang Avenue 1550, Shanghai, 201306, China)
Bing Sun
Affiliation:
(Laboratory of Underwater Vehicles and Intelligent Systems, Shanghai Maritime University, Haigang Avenue 1550, Shanghai, 201306, China)
*
(E-mail: zdq367@aliyun.com)
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Abstract

The trajectory tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) is an important research topic. However, in the traditional research into AUV trajectory tracking control, the AUV often follows human-set trajectories without obstacles, and trajectory planning and tracking are separated. Focusing on this separation, a trajectory re-planning controller based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) is designed and added into the trajectory tracking controller to form a new control system. Firstly, an obstacle avoidance function is set up for the design of an MPC trajectory re-planning controller, so that the re-planned trajectory produced by the re-planning controller can avoid obstacles. Then, the tracking controller in the MPC receives the re-planned trajectory and obtains the optimal tracking control law after calculating the object function with a Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) optimisation algorithm. Lastly, in a backstepping algorithm, the speed jump can be sharp while the MPC tracking controller can solve the speed jump problem. Simulation results of different obstacles and trajectories demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed MPC trajectory re-planning tracking control algorithm for AUVs.

Keywords

Autonomous Underwater VehiclesTrajectory Re-planningTrajectory TrackingObstacle AvoidanceModel Predictive Control

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , March 2019 , pp. 321 - 341
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 2018 

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