Intelligent Active Force Control of an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle Using Evolutionary Computation Technique

Authors

  • See Zu Yuan School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81310 UTM Johor Bahru Johor
  • Musa Mailah School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81310 UTM Johor Bahru Johor
  • Tang Howe Hing School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81310 UTM Johor Bahru Johor

Keywords:

Underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV), proportional-integral-derivative (PID), active force control (AFC), evolutionary computation (EC), robustness

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a robust control system on an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV). An intelligent Active Force Control (AFC) with Evolutionary Computation (EC) algorithms was implemented to a selected dynamic model of the UROV. System performance employing different hybrid control schemes that applied AFC and EC was observed and studied to evaluate review their performance and capability. The system performance of the six degree of freedom (6-DOF) UROV related to the surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch and yaw motions, respectively were observed to obtain the responses related to the steady-state error, overshoot and settling time as the criteria for evaluation. Conventional PID controller was first implemented on the system and tuned using a heuristic method before applying any disturbances and other control techniques. A comparative study between PID, PID-AFC and PID-AFC-EC was then conducted to determine the best control technique amongst them. The results showed that PID-AFC-EC is robust, has low steady state error and fast settling time even when disturbances were presence in and applied to the system.

 

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2020-12-19

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Yuan, S. Z., Mailah, M., & Howe Hing, T. (2020). Intelligent Active Force Control of an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle Using Evolutionary Computation Technique. Jurnal Mekanikal, 43(2). Retrieved from https://jurnalmekanikal.utm.my/index.php/jurnalmekanikal/article/view/411

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