Although intrinsically marine craft are known to exhibit non-linear dynamic characteristics, modern marine autopilot system designs continue to be developed based on both linear and non-linear control approaches. This article evaluates two novel non-linear autopilot designs based on non-linear local control network and non-linear model predictive control approaches to establish their effectiveness in terms of control activity expenditure, power consumption and mission duration length under similar operating conditions. From practical point of view, autopilot with less energy consumption would in reality provide the battery-powered vehicle with longer mission duration. The autopilot systems are used to control the non-linear yaw dynamics of an unmanned surface vehicle named Springer. The yaw dynamics of the vehicle being modelled using a multi-layer perceptron-type neural network. Simulation results showed that the autopilot based on local control network method performed better for Springer. Furthermore, on the whole, the local control network methodology can be regarded as a plausible paradigm for marine control system design.


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    Title :

    Non-linear control algorithms for an unmanned surface vehicle


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    Publication date :

    2014-05-01


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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