Dynamic Position Control for Unmanned Small Vehicle (Application for Vessel)

Abstract

Unmanned surface and the underwater vehicle in the marine industry have advanced since 1960s, in terms of delivery and technology but a bit left behind compared to the development of unmanned ground vehicles. The system for stability is vast for ground vehicles since it is less complex and becomes more common transports used by men. Therefore, many kinds of research have been explored in this area to improve water transportation due to many losses of benefits if the field is to be neglected. Therefore, this paper conducts and collects study on Dynamic Positioning (DP) control system for small vessels to gain and proposed the optimized solution based on the recent theories regarding the field area. By initially experimenting on computer simulation, the methodology is applied carefully, step by step before being implemented on the real USV planned for this study. In short, the Fuzzy control system is applied in conjunction with the Kalman filtering theory, which both have been proved efficient based on recent study and simulation on a model ship.