Hardware in the loop simulation applied to semi-autonomous underwater vehicles. / Simulação com hardware in the loop aplicada a veículos submarinos semi-autônomos.

AUTOR(ES)

Hilgad Montelo da Silva

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) have many commercial, military, and scientific applications because of their potential capabilities and significant costperformance improvements over traditional means of obtaining valuable underwater information The development of a reliable sampling and testing platform for these vehicles requires a thorough system design and many costly at-sea trials during which systems specifications can be validated. Modeling and simulation provide a cost-effective measure to carry out preliminary component, system (hardware and software), and mission testing and verification, thereby reducing the number of potential failures in at-sea trials. An accurate simulation environment can help engineers to find hidden errors in the UUV embedded software and gain insights into the UUV operation and dynamics. This work describes the implementation of a UUVs control algorithm using MATLAB/SIMULINK, its automatic conversion to an executable code (in C++) and the verification of its performance directly into the embedded computer using simulations. It is detailed the necessary procedure to allow the conversion of the models from MATLAB to C++ code, integration of the control software with the real time operating system used on the embedded computer (VxWORKS) and the developed strategy of Hardware in the loop Simulation (HILS). The Main contribution of this work is to present a rational framework to support the final implementation of the control software on the embedded computer, starting from the model developed on an environment friendly to the control engineers, like SIMULINK.

ASSUNTO(S)

underwater vehicle simulink submersíveis não tripulados arquitetura de software (simulação) hardware in-the-loop simulation dynamic model embedded real-time system control system matlab

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