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System Construction for Distributedly Controlling the Thrusters of X4-AUV

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2017)

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A small-sized X4-AUV is a kind of AUVs that do not use any rudders, and is driven by four thrusters arranged equally around the fuselage. In order to drive the X4-AUV more efficiently and precisely, a distributed control system of thrusters is proposed, in which the command of a main microcontroller is distributed to four sub-microcontrollers, one of which is mounted on each thruster. By utilizing the serial communication between the PC and the sub-microcontroller, the P, I and D gains of thruster can be easily adjusted on a Graphical User Interface (GUI). After the gains are adjusted, the performance of distributed control of the thrusters can be verified in real time through another designed GUI.

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  1. Division of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    Xiongshi Xu

  2. Department for Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    Keigo Watanabe & Isaku Nagai

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  1. School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    YongAn Huang

  2. School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Hao Wu

  3. Institute of Industrial Research, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    Honghai Liu

  4. School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Zhouping Yin

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Xu, X., Watanabe, K., Nagai, I. (2017). System Construction for Distributedly Controlling the Thrusters of X4-AUV. In: Huang, Y., Wu, H., Liu, H., Yin, Z. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65289-4_76

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