Finite-time fault-tolerant trajectory tracking control of an autonomous surface vehicle

Abstract

In this paper, finite-time fault-tolerant control (FTC) for trajectory tracking of an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) is solved. Main contributions are summarized as follows: (1) a finite-time passive FTC (F-PFTC) scheme using integral sliding mode (ISM) manifold is developed by exploiting partial knowledge on faults and disturbances, and achieves fast and accurate tracking with passive fault tolerance; (2) an online finite-time fault estimator (FFE) is devised to detect, isolate, and accommodate unknown faults and disturbances, and thereby eventually contributing to the finite-time active FTC (F-AFTC) scheme without using a priori knowledge; (3) suffering from both unknown faults and disturbances, the proposed F-PFTC and F-AFTC schemes can track exactly an ASV to the desired trajectory. Comprehensive simulations and comparisons conducted on CyberShip II demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed schemes.