• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2018

This study deals with the heading angle and depth keeping control technique for an ROV with multiple horizontal and vertical thrusters by thrust allocation. The light work class ROV URI-L, which is under development at KRISO, is a redundant actuating system with multiple thrusters that are larger than the ROV's degree of freedom. In the redundant actuating system, there are several solutions for a specific ROV motion to be performed. Therefore, a thrust allocation algorithm that considers the entire propulsion system should be regarded as important. First, this paper describes the propulsion system of the ROV and introduces the thrust allocation method of each motion controller. In addition, the performance of the controller is examined using a heading angle and depth keeping control test in a stationary state.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.94-105
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• 2015

In this study, a thruster allocation method of a deep-sea working vessel was proposed with the aims of producing the demanded generalized forces and moment for dynamic positioning while at the same time minimizing total power. For this, an optimization problem for thrust allocation was mathematically formulated with design variables, objective function, and constraints. The genetic algorithms (GA) was used to solve the formulated problem. The proposed method was applied to an example of finding optimal thrust allocation of the deep-sea working vessel having 5 thrusters. The result showed that the method could be used to determine better strategy for thruster allocation of the vessel as compared to existing study.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.658-668
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• 2004

This paper is concerned with a control allocation strategy using the dynamic inversion and the pseudo inverse control which generates the nominal control input trajectories. In addition, an autopilot design method is proposed by using time-varying control technique which is time-varying version of the pole placement of linear time-invariant system for an agile missile with aerodynamic fin and thrust vectoring control. The control allocation proposed in this paper is capable of extracting the maximum performance by combining each control effector, aerodynamic fin and thrust vectoring control. The adopted time-varying control technique for the autopilot design enhances the robustness of the tracking performance for a reference command. The main results are validated through the nonlinear simulations with aerodynamic data.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.217-225
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• 2016

Dynamic Positioning (DP) is used to automatically maintain the position and heading of a floating structure subjected to environmental disturbances. A DP control system is composed of a motion controller to compute the desired force and moment and a thrust allocator to distribute the computed force and moment to multiple thrusters considering mechanical and operational constraints. Among various thruster configurations, azimuth thrusters or propeller/rudder pairs tend to make the allocation problem difficult to solve, because these types of propulsion systems include nonlinear constraints. In this paper, a dynamic positioning strategy for a twin-thruster ship that is propelled by two azimuthing thrusters is addressed, and a thrust allocation method which does not require a numerical optimization solver is proposed. The applicability of the proposed method is demonstrated with an experiment using an autonomous boat.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.122-130
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• 2003

This paper is concerned with a control allocation strategy using the dynamic inversion and the pseudo inverse control which generates the nominal control input trajectories, and autopilot design using time-varying control technique which is time-varying version of pole placement of linear time-invariant system for an agile missile with aerodynamic fin and thrust vectoring control. Control allocation of this paper is capable of extracting the maximum performance from each control effector, aerodynamic fin and thrust vectoring control, by combining the action of them. Time-varying control technique for autopilot design enhance the robustness of the tracking performance for a reference command. The main results are validated through the nonlinear simulation.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.236-242
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• 2005

Dynamic Positioning(DP) system maintains ship's position (fixed location or predetermined track) exclusively by means of CPPs and thrusters. To generate the control input adequate to various situation an integrated controller for CPPs and thrusters is required. The integrated controller is composed of a thrust calculation algorithm and a thrust allocation algorithm. The thrust calculation algorithm generates thrusts in the surge direction and the sway direction from the desired forward and lateral speed and generates a moment about the yaw axis from desired heading angle. The thrust allocation algorithm allocates the generated thrusts and moment to each CPP and thruster. Computer simulations are executed to confirm the effectiveness of the suggested controller.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.525-530
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• 2003

This paper is concerned with a control allocation strategy using the dynamic inversion which generates the nominal control input trajectories, and autopilot design using the time-varying control technique which is time-varying version of pole placement of linear time-invariant system for an agile missile with aerodynamic fin and thrust vectoring control. Dynamic inversion can decide the amount of the deflection of each control effector, aerodynamic fin and thrust vectoring control, to extract the maximum performance by combining the action of them. Time-varying control technique for autopilot design enhance the robustness of the tracking performance for a reference command. Nonlinear simulations demonstrates the dynamic inversion provides the effective nominal control input trajectories to achieve the angle of attack command, and time-varying control technique exhibits good robustness for a wide range of angle of attack.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2017

고체 추진제를 연료로 사용하는 DACS의 강인한 추력 분배기법에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 추진기관이 제어해야 하는 추력의 자유도보다 많은 구동 노즐을 보유한 시스템에 대하여, 비정상적인 상황을 허용할 수 있는 강인한 추력제어 기법을 제안하였다. 추력 분배기법에 의해 각 노즐로 인가된 명령 대비 응답 노즐 목 면적 크기의 차이를 이용하여 추력 분배기법에 적용된 가중행렬을 실시간으로 변환시키는 기법을 적용하였다. 이를 통하여 오차가 발생한 노즐의 추력 분배 비율을 감소시키고, 결론적으로 시스템에서 발생되는 추력 오차를 감소시키도록 하였다. 제안된 기법에 대하여 DCS와 ACS 각각의 구동장치가 제어명령을 추종하지 못하는 임의의 고장조건을 모의하였고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 기법의 성능을 검증하였다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.66-74
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• 2012

In this paper, the authors propose a new approach to control a barge type surface vessel. It is based on the Dynamic Positioning System(DPS) design. The main role of barge ship is to carry and supply the materials to the floating units and other places. To carry out this job, it should be positioned in the specified area. However sometimes the thrust systems are installed on it, and in general the rope control by mooring winch system is used. It may be difficult to compare the control performances of two types. If we consider this problem in point of usefulness, we can easily find out that the winch control system is more useful and applicable to the real field than the thrust control system except a special use. Therefore, in this paper we consider a DPS design problem which can be extended to the many application fields. The goal of this paper is twofold. First, the sliding mode controller (SMC) for positioning the our vessel is proposed. Especially, in this paper, a robust stability condition is given based on descriptor system representation. In the result, the sliding mode control law guarantees to keep the vessel in the defined area in the presence of environmental disturbances. And second, the thrust allocation problem is solved by using redistributed pseudo-inverse (RPI) algorithm to determine the thrust force and direction of each individual actuator. The proposed approach has been simulated with a supply vessel model and found work well.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2015

고체 추진제를 연료로 사용하는 DACS의 압력 및 추력을 동시에 제어하기 위한 제어기법을 제안하였다. 두 제어변수를 효과적으로 제어하기 위하여 각 변수의 물리적 특성을 고려한 연속형 루프 닫힘 구조를 적용하였고, 부정정 구조를 가진 제어명령을 효율적으로 분배하기 위하여 가중벡터를 이용한 의사 역행열 기법을 제안하였다. 아울러 높은 가속도를 안정적으로 획득하기 위하여 압력 유도기법을 종말 호밍구간에 적용함으로써 추력과 압력에 관한 명령 분배의 효용성을 입증하였다.