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Experimental Identification of Three Degree-of-Freedom Coupled Dynamic Plant Models for Underwater Vehicles

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This paper addresses the modeling and experimental identification of five different three degree-of-freedom (DOF) coupled nonlinear second-order plant models for low-speed maneuvering of fully actuated open-frame underwater vehicles for the surge, sway, and yaw DOFs. A comparative experimental evaluation of five different candidate plant models, whose unknown plant parameters are estimated from data obtained in free-motion vehicle trials, is reported. Model performance is evaluated for each of the five different 3-DOF coupled nonlinear finite-dimensional second-order plant models as identified by ordinary least squares (OLS) and total least squares (TLS), respectively, by comparing the mean absolute error between the experimentally observed vehicle velocities and the velocities obtained by a numerical simulation of the identified plant models. A cross-validation is reported which evaluates the performance of a plant model to accurately reproduce observed plant velocities for experimental trials differing from the trials from which the plant model parameters were estimated.

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The authors would like to thank Dr. D. R. Yoerger who graciously provided the use of his 300-kHz SHARPS navigation system. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation under Award #0812138. Stephen C. Martin was supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, a Link Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship in Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation, and an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Scholarship.

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    Stephen C. Martin

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

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Martin, S.C., Whitcomb, L.L. (2017). Experimental Identification of Three Degree-of-Freedom Coupled Dynamic Plant Models for Underwater Vehicles. In: Fossen, T., Pettersen, K., Nijmeijer, H. (eds) Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 474. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55372-6_15

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