Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode and NN Based Control of Underactuated AUV

In this paper, a nonsingular terminal sliding mode control (NTSMC) combined with neural network and disturbance observer is proposed for the trajectory tracking of an underactuated AUV. An adaptive neural network (NN) is designed to compensate the complicated uncertain nonlinearity in the dynamics of AUV. Disturbance observer is employed to estimate the external disturbances. Lyapunov method proves the stability of the proposed controller. Simulation results show that the designed controller has good performance.