Title Nonlinear model predictive control-based guidance law for path following of unmanned surface vehicles
Authors BEJARANO PELLICER, GUILLERMO, MANZANO CRESPO, JOSÉ MARÍA, SALVADOR ORTIZ, JOSÉ RAMÓN, Limon, Daniel
External publication No
Means OCEAN ENGINEERING
Scope Article
Nature Científica
JCR Quartile 1
SJR Quartile 1
JCR Impact 5
SJR Impact 1.326
Web https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85133489927&doi=10.1016%2fj.oceaneng.2022.111764&partnerID=40&md5=09ea9c978093a7b35eb5234b42dc732f
Publication date 15/08/2022
ISI 000827460200002
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-85133489927
DOI 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.111764
Abstract This work proposes a nonlinear model predictive control-based guidance strategy for unmanned surface vehicles, focused on path following. The application of this strategy, in addition to overcome drawbacks of previous line-of-sight-based guidance laws, intends to enable the application of predictive strategies also to the low-level control, responsible for tracking the references provided by the guidance strategy. The stability and robustness of the proposed strategy are theoretically discussed. Furthermore, given the non-negligible computational cost of such nonlinear predictive guidance strategy, a practical nonlinear model predictive control strategy is also applied in order to reduce the computational cost to a great extent. The effectiveness and advantages of both proposed strategies over other nonlinear guidance laws are illustrated through a complete set of simulations.
Keywords Unmannedsurfacevehicles; Pathfollowingcontrol; Nonlinearsystems; Modelpredictivecontrol; Robuststability
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