Title
Waypoint guidance control for underwater snake robots exposed to ocean currents
Abstract
This paper presents a waypoint guidance strategy for underwater snake robots, which is an extension of the straight line path following controllers previously proposed by the authors. The proposed waypoint guidance control enables an underwater snake robot to converge towards and follow a desired path compensating for disturbances due to ocean currents effects. The ocean currents are constant and irrotational, and with unknown magnitude and direction. A set of waypoints is chosen along the desired path which is then defined by interconnecting these waypoints by straight lines. Simulation results for both lateral undulation and eel-like motion illustrate the performance of the guidance strategy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/MED.2016.7535893
2016 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)
Keywords
Field
DocType
waypoint guidance control,underwater snake robots,straight line path following controllers,irrotational ocean currents,lateral undulation,eel-like motion
Conservative vector field,Line (geometry),Undulatory locomotion,Simulation,Computer science,Control theory,Path following,Control engineering,Waypoint,Ocean current,Robot,Underwater
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-369X
978-1-4673-8347-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eleni Kelasidi1718.57
Anna M Kohl200.34
Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen340242.59
Jan Tommy Gravdahl432743.60