Adaptive Tracking Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

This paper presents the trajectory tracking control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). To cope with parametric uncertainties owing to the hydrodynamic effect, an adaptive control law is developed for the AUV to track the desired trajectory. This desired state-dependent regressor matrix-based controller provides consistent results under hydrodynamic parametric uncertainties. Stability of the developed controller is verified using the Lyapunov’s direct method. Numerical simulations are carried out to study the efficacy of the proposed adaptive controller.

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