Title
Joint Localization and Tracking Design for AUV With Asynchronous Clocks and State Disturbances
Abstract
Localization and tracking are basic services for the applications of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Although they are closely related, the localization or tracking is usually studied independently. This paper addresses a joint localization and tracking issue for an AUV, subject to asynchronous clocks in physical channel and state disturbances in control channel. We first develop an asynchronous localization algorithm to estimate the position of an AUV, wherein the clocks on AUV and buoys are not required to be synchronized. With the estimated position, a model-free tracking controller is designed for an AUV to track the reference trajectory. Particularly, the time-delay estimation and dynamic gain strategies are adopted to reduce the influence of state disturbances. Moreover, the convergence conditions and Cramér–Rao lower bounds for the localization algorithm are derived. For the tracking controller, Lyapunov functions are constructed to analyze the stability, through which the sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability are presented. Finally, simulation and experiment results are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method. It is demonstrated that the asynchronous localization algorithm in this paper can effectively eliminate the impact of the clock skew and offset. Meanwhile, the tracking accuracy can be significantly improved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TVT.2019.2903212
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Clocks,Heuristic algorithms,Sensors,Surges,Trajectory,Global Positioning System,Vehicle dynamics
Asynchronous communication,Lyapunov function,Control theory,Computer science,Control theory,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Clock skew,Exponential stability,Trajectory,Offset (computer science)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
68
5
0018-9545
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jing Yan115120.02
Hongjun Ban210.35
Xiao-Yuan Luo327133.54
Haiyan Zhao463.92
Xinping Guan52791253.38