Stochastic Model Predictive Control for the Set Point Tracking of Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Autor: Yuan Tan, Guangbin Cai, Bin Li, Kok Lay Teo, Song Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 579-588 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2962061
Popis: An unmanned surface vehicles (USV) set point tracking problem is investigated in this paper. The stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) scheme is utilized to design the controller in order to reject the environment disturbances and meet the physical constraints. The design problem is formulated as a chance-constrained stochastic optimization problem, which is non-convex. Thus, the problem is computationally prohibitive. For this, the convex conditional value at risk (CVaR) approximation is introduced to convert the chance constraints into deterministic convex constraints. The converted constraints are then further transformed into the second order cone (SOC) constraints. Therefore, the proposed method is computationally tractable and hence can be implemented online. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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