Swarm Control for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Unknown Time-Varying Environmental Disturbance and Input Saturation

This paper addresses the swarm tracking problem of multiple unmanned surface vehicles subjected to unknown time-varying environmental disturbance and input saturation. The main control objective of this paper is that USVs cluster to follow the virtual leader with the desired position and heading and...

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Main Authors: Guoqing Xia, Xianxin Sun
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Control Science and Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8962970
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description This paper addresses the swarm tracking problem of multiple unmanned surface vehicles subjected to unknown time-varying environmental disturbance and input saturation. The main control objective of this paper is that USVs cluster to follow the virtual leader with the desired position and heading and are required to maintain a specified position separation relative to both neighbor vehicles. In order to achieve the design goal, we mainly focus on three aspects. Firstly, to estimate the external disturbance accurately and improve the convergence speed, a finite-time disturbance observer is designed. Secondly, an auxiliary dynamic system is introduced to solve the input saturation problem. Thirdly, an output feedback controller based on a finite-time disturbance observer and an auxiliary dynamic system is designed to achieve swarm control of multiple unmanned surface vehicles. The stability of the system is proved by the Lyapunov directly method. Finally, the simulation results show that the proposed control strategy is effective.
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spelling doaj-art-4f499105e4c84a50a02158604c44f2da2025-08-20T03:20:19ZengWileyJournal of Control Science and Engineering1687-52572022-01-01202210.1155/2022/8962970Swarm Control for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Unknown Time-Varying Environmental Disturbance and Input SaturationGuoqing Xia0Xianxin Sun1College of Intelligent Systems Science and EngineeringCollege of Intelligent Systems Science and EngineeringThis paper addresses the swarm tracking problem of multiple unmanned surface vehicles subjected to unknown time-varying environmental disturbance and input saturation. The main control objective of this paper is that USVs cluster to follow the virtual leader with the desired position and heading and are required to maintain a specified position separation relative to both neighbor vehicles. In order to achieve the design goal, we mainly focus on three aspects. Firstly, to estimate the external disturbance accurately and improve the convergence speed, a finite-time disturbance observer is designed. Secondly, an auxiliary dynamic system is introduced to solve the input saturation problem. Thirdly, an output feedback controller based on a finite-time disturbance observer and an auxiliary dynamic system is designed to achieve swarm control of multiple unmanned surface vehicles. The stability of the system is proved by the Lyapunov directly method. Finally, the simulation results show that the proposed control strategy is effective.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8962970
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Swarm Control for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Unknown Time-Varying Environmental Disturbance and Input Saturation
Journal of Control Science and Engineering
title Swarm Control for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Unknown Time-Varying Environmental Disturbance and Input Saturation
title_full Swarm Control for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Unknown Time-Varying Environmental Disturbance and Input Saturation
title_fullStr Swarm Control for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Unknown Time-Varying Environmental Disturbance and Input Saturation
title_full_unstemmed Swarm Control for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Unknown Time-Varying Environmental Disturbance and Input Saturation
title_short Swarm Control for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Unknown Time-Varying Environmental Disturbance and Input Saturation
title_sort swarm control for multiple unmanned surface vehicles with unknown time varying environmental disturbance and input saturation
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8962970
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