The trajectory tracking control problem is addressed for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in marine environment, with presence of the infuence of the uncertain factors including ocean current disturbance, dynamic modeling uncertainty, and thrust model errors. To improve the trajectory tracking accuracy of AUV, an adaptive backstepping terminal sliding mode control based on recurrent neural networks (RNN) is proposed. Firstly, considering the inaccurate of thrust model of thruster, a Taylor's polynomial is used to obtain the thrust model errors. And then, the dynamic modeling uncertainty and thrust model errors are combined into the system model uncertainty (SMU) of AUV; through the RNN, the SMU and ocean current disturbance are classifed, approximated online. Finally, the weights of RNN and other control parameters are adjusted online based on the backstepping terminal sliding mode controller. In addition, a chattering-reduction method is proposed based on sigmoid function. In chattering-reduction method, the sigmoid function is used to realize the continuity of the sliding mode switching function, and the sliding mode switching gain is adjusted online based on the exponential form of the sliding mode function. Based on the Lyapunov theory and Barbalat's lemma, it is theoretically proved that the AUV trajectory tracking error can quickly converge to zero in the fnite time. This research proposes a trajectory tracking control method of AUV, which can efectively achieve high-precision trajectory tracking control of AUV under the infuence of the uncertain factors. The feasibility and efectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with trajectory tracking simulations and pool-experiments of AUV.
The trajectory tracking control problem is addressed for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in marine environment, with presence of the infuence of the uncertain factors including ocean current disturbance, dynamic modeling uncertainty, and thrust model errors. To improve the trajectory tracking accuracy of AUV, an adaptive backstepping terminal sliding mode control based on recurrent neural networks (RNN) is proposed. Firstly, considering the inaccurate of thrust model of thruster, a Taylor's polynomial is used to obtain the thrust model errors. And then, the dynamic modeling uncertainty and thrust model errors are combined into the system model uncertainty (SMU) of AUV; through the RNN, the SMU and ocean current disturbance are classifed, approximated online. Finally, the weights of RNN and other control parameters are adjusted online based on the backstepping terminal sliding mode controller. In addition, a chattering-reduction method is proposed based on sigmoid function. In chattering-reduction method, the sigmoid function is used to realize the continuity of the sliding mode switching function, and the sliding mode switching gain is adjusted online based on the exponential form of the sliding mode function. Based on the Lyapunov theory and Barbalat's lemma, it is theoretically proved that the AUV trajectory tracking error can quickly converge to zero in the fnite time. This research proposes a trajectory tracking control method of AUV, which can efectively achieve high-precision trajectory tracking control of AUV under the infuence of the uncertain factors. The feasibility and efectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with trajectory tracking simulations and pool-experiments of AUV.
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