A novel bilateral impedance controls for underwater tele-operation systems

Abstract

Owing to characteristics of the flow and the variability, it is extremely difficult to achieve the stability and the transparency of the underwater tele-operation system. In practice, the accurate force may not easily be acquired due to model uncertainties, the time delay and external disturbances. In order to enhance the stability and the transparency of the underwater tele-operation, an adaptive neural fuzzy inference system disturbance observer-based impedance control is proposed to both the master side and slave side. The learning algorithm of the adaptive neural fuzzy inference system network and the disturbance observer may simultaneously suppress model uncertainties of the nonlinear system and disturbances of external underwater environment. Concerning the time delay, the stability is analyzed by Lyapunov theorem. Numerical simulations are performed and results demonstrate the effective performance of the proposed method.