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The trajectory tracking problem for a fully-actuated real-scaled surface vessel is addressed in this paper by designing a backstepping controller with a multivariable integral action, considering the thruster allocation problem. The performance and robustness of this controller are evaluated in simulation, taking into account environmental disturbance forces and modeling mismatch, using a docking maneuver as a reference trajectory. Furthermore, a comparison between the backstepping controller and a nonlinear position PID-Control with flatness based-feedforward is also analyzed.
This thesis presents the development of two different state-feedback controllers to solve the trajectory tracking problem, where the vessel needs to reach and follow a time-varying reference trajectory. This motion problem was addressed to a real-scaled fully actuated surface vessel, whose dynamic model had unknown hydrodynamic and propulsion parameters that were identified by applying an experimental maneuver-based identification process. This dynamic model was then used to develop the controllers. The first one was the backstepping controller, which was designed with a local exponential stability proof. For the NMPC, the controller was developed to minimize the tracking error, considering the thrusters’ constraints. Moreover, both controllers considered the thruster allocation problem and counteracted environmental disturbance forces such as current, waves and wind.The effectiveness of these approaches was verified in simulation using Matlab/Simulink and GRAMPC (in the case of the NMPC), and in experimental scenarios, where they were applied to the vessel, performing docking maneuvers at the Rhine River in Constance (Germany).