machines Article A Self-triggered Position Based Visual Servoing Model Predictive Control Scheme for Underwater Robotic Vehicles † Shahab Heshmati-alamdari 1 , Alina Eqtami 2, George C. Karras 3,4 , Dimos V. Dimarogonas 1 and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos 4,* 1 Division of Decision and Control Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;
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[email protected] (D.V.D.) 2 Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes (L2S) CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay 3, rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, cedex, France;
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[email protected] † This paper is an extended version of our paper published in Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, Alina Eqtami, George C. Karras, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos. A Self-triggered Visual Servoing Model Predictive Control Scheme for Under-actuated Underwater Robotic Vehicles. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 31 May–7 June 2014. Received: 1 May 2020; Accepted: 7 June 2020; Published: 11 June 2020 Abstract: An efficient position based visual sevroing control approach for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) by employing Non-linear Model Predictive Control (N-MPC) is designed and presented in this work. In the proposed scheme, a mechanism is incorporated within the vision-based controller that determines when the Visual Tracking Algorithm (VTA) should be activated and new control inputs should be calculated.