Control of a Highly Maneuverable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
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2020-01-29
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A Highly Maneuverable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HM-AUV) is a novel type of underwater vehicle designed to navigate in constrained and difficult to reach environments. The vehicle used in this thesis has a unique 3-thruster configuration that allows it to produce motion among the different axis of motion by adjusting its thruster tilt angles. The focus of this thesis is to develop a control scheme that can take advantage of this unique thruster configuration in order for the HM-AUV to maneuver among tight spaces. The developed controller achieves control over most of the HM-AUV's axis of motion directly while managing to control its lateral, or sway, movement via a novel direct sway control technique. With the implemented control scheme, the HM-AUV is able to achieve complex motions, albeit at a slow rate due to the underpowered thrusters that are installed in the vehicle.
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Garcia Rodriguez, J. A. (2020). Control of a Highly Maneuverable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.