Stabilization of Steady Motions of an Underwater Vehicle
N.E. Leonard
In Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
December 1996, p. 961-966.
Abstract
In this paper we show how to stabilize underwater vehicle
dynamics for a six degree-of-freedom vehicle modeled as a
neutrally buoyant, submerged rigid body in an ideal fluid.
Stabilization is achieved by applying external torques to the vehicle
that mimic the kind of torques that are naturally induced when the
vehicle's center of gravity is lower than its center of buoyancy.
This approach makes the controlled system resemble the uncontrolled system in structure, and
we can mimic our analysis of open-loop stability of a bottom-heavy
underwater vehicle (Leonard 1996, Leonard and Marsden 1996)
to study closed-loop stability of the controlled vehicle.
We show that the closed-loop system has Lie-Poisson form
and prove closed-loop stability using
extensions to the energy-Casimir method.
A resulting property of the control law is robustness to model parameter
uncertainty.
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