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Centralized Control System Design for Underwater Transportation using two Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs)

Rehman, FU; Thomas, G; Anderlini, E; (2019) Centralized Control System Design for Underwater Transportation using two Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs). In: (Proceedings) 5th IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences (ICONS). (pp. pp. 13-18). Elsevier Green open access

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Abstract

In this paper, a centralized control system is designed for the two HAUVs undertaking underwater transportation of a spherical payload via cylindrical manipulators. First, the nonlinear coupled dynamic model is developed considering the rigid body connection method for transportation. The effect of the hydrodynamic, hydrostatic and thrust parameters are taken about the centre of the combined body i.e. the centre of payload. Path trajectory is generated using the minimum snap trajectory algorithm. The trajectory is divided into segments for each directional motion which is further divided into the waypoints based on the time step of the duration. The path between two waypoints is represented by a 7th order polynomial. The centralized control system is designed to follow the desired trajectory. The control system is designed using PID controllers for the motion control in each direction. The main technical requirements are the stability of the payload, accurate trajectory tracking and robustness to overcome uncertainties. Stability cannot be compromised because of the rigid connection between the vehicles and the payload, whereas, tracking is given a tolerance of ±5%. Transportation task is observed for the desired motion in the horizontal plane. The time domain motion simulation results show that the desired trajectory has been accurately followed by the combined system while meeting the technical requirements.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Centralized Control System Design for Underwater Transportation using two Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs)
Event: 5th IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences (ICONS)
Location: Queens Univ Belfast, Ctr Intelligent Autonomous Mfg Syst, Belfast, NORTH IRELAND
Dates: 21 August 2019 - 23 August 2019
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.09.111
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.09.111
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Rigid body connection, Nonlinear coupled dynamic model, hydrodynamics, path trajectory, waypoints, PID controller, tracking
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086823
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