Survey on fuzzy-logic-based guidance and control of marine surface vehicles and underwater vehicles

X Xiang, C Yu, L Lapierre, J Zhang, Q Zhang - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Fuzzy logic control, due to its simple control structure, easy and cost-effective design, has
been successfully employed to the application of guidance and control in robotic fields. This …

Adaptive second-order fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode tracking control for fully actuated autonomous underwater vehicles

L Qiao, W Zhang - IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on the design of an adaptive second-order fast nonsingular terminal
sliding mode control (ASOFNTSMC) scheme for the trajectory tracking of fully actuated …

Virtual submerged floating operational system for robotic manipulation

Q Zhang, J Zhang, A Chemori, X Xiang - Complexity, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a virtual submerged floating operational system (VSFOS) based on parallel and
serial robotic platforms is proposed. The primary aim behind its development lies in carrying …

An adaptive terminal sliding mode control for robot manipulators with non-singular terminal sliding surface variables

AT Vo, HJ Kang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an adaptive terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) algorithm for robot
manipulators. The contribution of our control method is that the suggested controller can …

Switching sliding-mode control strategy based on multi-type restrictive condition for voltage control of buck converter in auxiliary energy source

B Wang, G Ma, D Xu, L Zhang, J Zhou - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a switching sliding-mode control strategy is proposed for the voltage control of
a buck converter in auxiliary energy source. The aim of this study is to solve the singularity …

Human-centered automatic tracking system for underactuated hovercraft based on adaptive chattering-free full-order terminal sliding mode control

M Fu, S Gao, C Wang, M Li - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering the difficult maneuverability of the hovercraft and the driving burden of the pilot,
an automatic tracking system including an intuitive human-computer interface and an …

Robust H2 optimal depth control of an autonomous underwater vehicle with output disturbances and time delay

L Qiao, S Ruan, G Zhang, W Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a robust H 2 optimal control strategy for the depth-plane motion of an
autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in the presence of output disturbances and time …

Two novel approaches of NTSMC and ANTSMC synchronization for smart grid chaotic systems

ASS Abadi, PA Hosseinabadi, S Mekhilef - Technology and Economics of …, 2018 - Springer
The presence of uncertainties and external disturbances is one of the unavoidable problems
with various practical systems which might be unavailable in real-time. Sliding Mode Control …

Time-delay control of cable-driven robots with adaptive fractional-order nonsingular terminal sliding mode

Y Wang, J Chen, K Zhu, B Chen, H Wu - Ieee Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To ensure high control performance of cable-driven robots under complicated lumped
uncertainties, we propose a novel time-delay control (TDC) scheme with adaptive fractional …

Adaptive terminal sliding mode control of hyper-chaotic uncertain 4-order system with one control input

PA Hosseinabadi, ASS Abadi… - 2018 IEEE conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the unavoidable issues with various real-time control systems is existence of the
external disturbances and uncertainties which is usually unavailable. To deal with these …