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A new adaptive robust control scheme combining the disturbance-observer-based control (DOBC) with fuzzy adapted S-Surface control is proposed for trajectory tracking control of autonomous underwater vehicle. The main contribution of the proposed method is that control configuration does not require the bounds of uncertainty of the vehicle to be known and disturbances effect can be estimated and rejected. The proposed control law is mainly composed of three parts: a feed forward control along with disturbance estimator, S-Surface control and single input adaptive fuzzy proportional-integral (PI) compensator. The nominal feed forward controller specifies desired closed loop dynamics with extravagance from known preferred acceleration vector. Meanwhile, the disturbance observer and adaptive fuzzy PI control term to compensate the unknown effects that are disturbances and unmodeled dynamics. An additional term as S-Surface control assures fast convergence due to a nonlinear expression in to surface and also enhance stability of the underwater vehicle in oceanic environment. Moreover, the disturbance observer enhances the robustness performance of the adaptive fuzzy system for disturbances that cannot be modeled by fuzzy logic. The stability of closed loop controlled system is proven to be guaranteed according to Lyapunov theory. Finally, numerical simulation results illustrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control method.
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