Abstract
A hydrodynamic control model is established in attention to coupling relationships among cable, propellers and robot body of a tethered underwater robot system. In this model the governing equations of umbilical cable and the robot are firstly introduced, then supplementary conditions are coupled into the equations to forming the dynamic mathematical model; finally a hybrid control strategy based on feed-forward negative feedback method for the cable and PID rule for the propellers are integrated in the mathematical model for composing the whole hydrodynamic control model. Both the mathematical model and the control algorithms are proved to be effective and reliable through comparing simulation with the experimental data in existed references. Based on the numerical model constructed in this paper, trajectory tracking of a tethered underwater robot system in different motion combinations are numerically simulated through computational fluid dynamics method. In the numerical simulations, finite difference method is used to solving the kinematic parameters of the mathematical model, while finite volume method is applied on calculating the hydrodynamic forces under a hybrid control manipulations. The robot motion in vertical direction is determined primary by feed-forward negative feedback strategy of adjusting the cable length, while the horizontal movement of the robot is controlled mainly through PID algorithm; The hydrodynamic loading on the robot body are influenced by the flow fields around the robot.
Article Highlights
Established the coupling equations with considering dynamic behaviors among propellers, umbilical cable and robot body.
Discovered the conversion relation which unrelated to objective factors between the rotating speeds of propellers and the corresponding thrusts.
Analyzed the changing rules of hydrodynamic loading on the underwater robot under a hybrid control strategy.
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1 Yangzhou Polytechnic Institute, Department of Architecture Engineering, Yangzhou, China (GRID:grid.495898.1) (ISNI:0000 0004 1762 6798)
2 South China University of Technology, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Guangzhou, China (GRID:grid.79703.3a) (ISNI:0000 0004 1764 3838)