Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wang, Bo, Loria, Antonio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18844
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910896974987264
author Wang, Bo
Loria, Antonio
author_facet Wang, Bo
Loria, Antonio
contents This Technical Note presents a simple control approach for global trajectory tracking and formation control of underactuated surface vessels equipped with only two propellers. The control approach exploits the inherent cascaded structure of the vehicle dynamics and is divided into control designs at the kinematics and kinetics levels. A controller with a low-gain feature is designed at the kinematics level by incorporating the cascaded system method, persistency of excitation, and the small-gain theorem. Furthermore, a PD+ controller is designed to achieve the velocity tracking at the kinetics level. The proposed control laws are partially linear and saturated linear and easy to implement. Based on a leader-follower scheme, our control approach applies to the formation tracking control problem of multi-vehicle systems under a directed spanning tree topology. Our main results guarantee uniform global asymptotic stability for the closed-loop system, which implies robustness with respect to bounded disturbances in the sense of Malkin's total stability, also known as local input-to-state stability.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2407_18844
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Leader-Follower Formation and Tracking Control of Underactuated Surface Vessels
Wang, Bo
Loria, Antonio
Systems and Control
This Technical Note presents a simple control approach for global trajectory tracking and formation control of underactuated surface vessels equipped with only two propellers. The control approach exploits the inherent cascaded structure of the vehicle dynamics and is divided into control designs at the kinematics and kinetics levels. A controller with a low-gain feature is designed at the kinematics level by incorporating the cascaded system method, persistency of excitation, and the small-gain theorem. Furthermore, a PD+ controller is designed to achieve the velocity tracking at the kinetics level. The proposed control laws are partially linear and saturated linear and easy to implement. Based on a leader-follower scheme, our control approach applies to the formation tracking control problem of multi-vehicle systems under a directed spanning tree topology. Our main results guarantee uniform global asymptotic stability for the closed-loop system, which implies robustness with respect to bounded disturbances in the sense of Malkin's total stability, also known as local input-to-state stability.
title Leader-Follower Formation and Tracking Control of Underactuated Surface Vessels
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18844