Robust adaptive multistage anti-windup dynamic surface control for dynamic positioning ships with mismatched disturbance

In this paper, a novel robust adaptive multistage anti-windup control strategy is developed for dynamic positioning ships in presence of input constraint, mismatched disturbance and external disturbance. Based on dynamic surface control technique, a composite control law, where both mismatched and matched disturbances are compensated, is established to stabilize the system without the requirement of solving any partial differential equations. In particularly, the mismatched disturbance caused by the model transformation is analyzed firstly and the better steady performance is achieved. In addition, a novel multistage anti-windup control based on anticipatory activation compensation is constructed to handle the input constraint while the transient performance is improved significantly. Moreover, the stability of the closed-loop system is proven via Lyapunov technique rigorously, and the tracking error can be forced into an arbitrarily small neighborhood around zero. Finally, simulations with comparisons demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. (c) 2021 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.