Design of Particle Swarm Optimization Adaptive Sliding Mode Controller Based on an Extended State Observer for the Longitudinal Motion of a Supercavitating Vehicle with Input Saturation

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a novel sliding mode control scheme for the supercavitating vehicle trajectory tracking problem that subjects to external disturbances and actuator saturation with two symmetric elevators and a cavitator as actuators by analytical methods and computer simulations. Firstly, the nonlinear and highly coupled dynamic and kinematic models of a supercavitating vehicle are presented in a comprehensive way by taking the cavity memory effect and time-variant planing force into consideration. The PSO algorithm is employed to optimize the control parameters for achieving better and more practical tracking performance by minimizing the objective function. A second-order extended state observer (ESO) is utilized to estimate the unknown external and state-dependent disturbances and compensates for control inputs. In addition, an antiwindup compensator is adopted to cope with actuator saturation. Finally, the proposed control scheme is employed for complex trajectory tracking of a supercavitating vehicle under various conditions by conducting comparative numerical simulations. Rigorous theoretical analysis and simulation results indicate that the proposed control scheme can achieve satisfactory tracking performance and have a good capability of robustness.