Output feedback control design to enlarge the domain of attraction of a supercavitating vehicle subject to actuator saturation

摘要

To enlarge the domain of attraction of a supercavitating vehicle subject to actuator saturation, this paper presents a new output feedback control design in consideration of the immeasurable vertical speed. The dive-plane dynamics of a supercavitating vehicle are considered. By introducing the sector condition of the planing force, a new output feedback control law that locally stabilizes the closed-loop system is proposed. The design of the controller that maximizes the vehicle's domain of attraction is then formulated and solved as an optimization problem with linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints. Simulations are conducted for systems under saturation-oriented and non-saturation-oriented controllers. The results show that the proposed design can achieve a much larger domain of attraction than do conventional, non-saturation-oriented approaches.