TY - GEN
T1 - A viability approach for the stabilization of an underactuated underwater vehicle in the presence of current disturbances
AU - Panagou, Dimitra
AU - Margellos, Kostas
AU - Summers, Sean
AU - Lygeros, John
AU - Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In this paper we present a viability-based formulation for the stabilization of an underactuated underwater vehicle under the influence of a known, constant current and state constraints. The stabilization problem is described by three problems in terms of viability theory. We present a solution to the first problem which addresses the safety of the system, i.e. guarantees that there exists a control law such that the vehicle always remains into the safe set of state constraints. In order to overcome the computational limitations due to the high dimension of the system we develop a two-stage approach, based on forward reachability and game theory. The control law is thus the safety controller when the system viability is at stake, i.e. close to the boundary of the safe set. The viability kernel and the control law are numerically computed.
AB - In this paper we present a viability-based formulation for the stabilization of an underactuated underwater vehicle under the influence of a known, constant current and state constraints. The stabilization problem is described by three problems in terms of viability theory. We present a solution to the first problem which addresses the safety of the system, i.e. guarantees that there exists a control law such that the vehicle always remains into the safe set of state constraints. In order to overcome the computational limitations due to the high dimension of the system we develop a two-stage approach, based on forward reachability and game theory. The control law is thus the safety controller when the system viability is at stake, i.e. close to the boundary of the safe set. The viability kernel and the control law are numerically computed.
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U2 - 10.1109/CDC.2009.5400954
DO - 10.1109/CDC.2009.5400954
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77950846341
SN - 9781424438716
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
SP - 8612
EP - 8617
BT - Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held jointly with 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference, CDC/CCC 2009
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held jointly with 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference, CDC/CCC 2009
Y2 - 15 December 2009 through 18 December 2009
ER -