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Ship Heading Control with Speed Keeping via a Nonlinear Disturbance Observer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2019

Zhiquan Liu Open the ORCID record for Zhiquan Liu [Opens in a new window] ,
Xiaoyang Lu  and
Diju Gao
Zhiquan Liu*
Affiliation:
(Key Laboratory of Marine Technology and Control Engineering Ministry of Communications, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306China)
Xiaoyang Lu
Affiliation:
(Key Laboratory of Marine Technology and Control Engineering Ministry of Communications, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306China)
Diju Gao
Affiliation:
(Key Laboratory of Marine Technology and Control Engineering Ministry of Communications, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306China)
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(E-mail: [email protected])
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Abstract

The control problem for a ship steering system with speed loss is discussed in this paper. Two methods are proposed to deal with the unknown bounded disturbance for a sliding mode controller applied to a nonlinear surface vessel heading control system. The system uncertainties caused by speed changes are taken as internal disturbances, while the wave moments are considered as external disturbances. A feedback linearization method is adopted to simplify the nonlinear system. An adaptive method and a Nonlinear Disturbance Observer (NDO) are proposed for course keeping manoeuvres and speed keeping in vessel steering and provide robust performance for time varying wave disturbance and actuator dynamics. Furthermore, the overall stability conditions of the proposed controllers are analysed by Lyapunov's direct method. Finally, simulation results using the characteristics of a naval vessel illustrate the effectiveness of the presented control algorithms.

Keywords

Course keepingSpeed lossSliding mode controlNDO
Type
Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , July 2019 , pp. 1035 - 1052
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 2019 

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