Ship tracking control based on linear active disturbance rejection control

Owing to ship's high inertia, strong time lag, non-linearity and under-actuated characteristics, as well as sustaining external disturbances frequently, designing a high performance ship tracking controller is still one of the most important research topics of ship motion control. Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) is proved to be very effective control method because it is independent of mathematical model of the plant and can compensate the internal and external disturbances dynamically. This paper investigates the applications of ADRC in ship motion tracking control and presents the design method of ADRC controller appropriate for ship tracking control. Firstly, ship motion mathematical model is introduced briefly and the linear ADRC (LADRC) is analyzed. Then considering the nonlinear ship track design model as a third order plant after utilizing variable substitution, a LADRC controller is designed by using fourth order linear extended state observer (LESO). At last, the simulation is performed. Simulation results show that the controller has a good tracking performance and disturbance rejection ability and is robust to the ship motion nonlinear characteristic and the external disturbances. The tracking process is fast, smooth and minor energy consumption.

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