Parameter identification of an open-frame underwater vehicle based on numerical simulation and quantum particle swarm optimization

Abstract

Accurate parameter identification of underwater vehicles is of great significance for their controller design and fault diagnosis. Some studies adopt numerical simulation methods to obtain the model parameters of underwater vehicles, but usually only conduct decoupled single-degree-of-freedom steady-state numerical simulations to identify resistance parameters. In this paper, the velocity response is solved by applying a force (or torque) to the underwater vehicle based on the overset grid and Dynamic Fluid-Body Interaction model of STAR-CCM+, solving for the velocity response of an underwater vehicle in all directions in response to propulsive force (or moment) inputs. Based on the data from numerical simulations, a parameter identification method using quantum particle swarm optimization is proposed to simultaneously identify inertia and resistance parameters. By comparing the forward velocity response curves obtained from pool experiments, the identified vehicle model’s mean square error of forward velocity is less than 0.20%, which is superior to the steady-state simulation method and particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm approaches.