Fuzzy linear extended states observer‐based iteration learning fault‐tolerant control for autonomous underwater vehicle trajectory‐tracking system

Abstract

Abstract To deal with thrusters’ faults of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), an iterative learning algorithm fault‐tolerant control (FTC) based on the linear extended states observer (LESO) is proposed. In this control scheme, the non‐linear feedback mechanism of the LESO is transplanted into iterative learning processes to estimate fault. Compared to our previous work, LESO is used to substitute classic non‐linear extended state observer to make the establishment of the whole system more structured; moreover, the number of parameters need to be tuned can be reduced by the conception of observer bandwidth of LESO. To enhance the controllability and robustness of whole scheme, a new saturated sliding mode controller is proposed based on the Lyapunov theory. Then to achieve online parameter self‐tuning for the control system, fuzzy logic controllers are introduced to find optimal relationship between LESO's parameter and tracking errors. The performance of the proposed controller is tested by some comparison experiments on Zhuhai A18D AUV; the results show that the proposed control scheme can ensure better stability than classical control and our previous control scheme when AUV suffers faults.