Mission management and control of BSA-AUV for ocean survey

Autor: Dingli Yu, Tao Chen, Xinqian Bian, Yufei Zhao, Zheping Yan
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Ocean Engineering. 55:161-174
ISSN: 0029-8018
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2012.06.022
Popis: This paper presents the design, implementation and real world evaluation of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The mission of the vehicle is to carry out an ocean survey in dynamic, partially unknown and unsafe environment, and subject to constraints on the operations. It is a multi-area and multi-sensor-type survey mission which is appropriate for a large range ocean survey to obtain different parameters in different objective areas. The main work in this project is the novel design and development of a hierarchical on-board architecture of the AUV. The architecture is specified by increasingly detailed Petri nets (PN) under the agent-based distributed autonomous control structure. A number of agents have been used in the architecture for mission management and control. Communications and cooperation between agents are realised. The management and control of the mission is modelled by discrete events driven PN formalism. The highest level PN and lower sub-PNs with designed events are described in detail. The designed vehicle has been tested in real world experiments, a lake trial, to evaluate its performance. The feasibility and effectiveness of the architecture is proven in the lake trials in nominal and degraded situations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE