基于无记忆状态观测器的多时滞不确定非线性系统的自适应控制

针对一类多时滞不确定非线性系统,研究了基于无记忆状态观测器的自适应控制问题.时滞状态扰动的上界未知,在控制中通过自适应律估计未知参数,并利用估计值设计了不依赖于时滞的无记忆状态观测器和控制器,基于Lyapunov-Krasovskii函数证明了观测误差渐近收敛到零.最后仿真结果说明了该方法的有效性.     

基于自抗扰的双环路UUV航向角控制方法

针对水下无人航行器（UUV）受到海流海浪等外部扰动与内部模型不确定导致航向角控制品质下降的问题,提出一种基于自抗扰（ADRC）的双环路航向角控制方法。首先,建立了 UUV 的六自由度动力学、运动学模型与水平面动力学模型。然后,设计了一种非线性控制器,将自抗扰控制与双控制环路相结合, 针对系统航向控制所受内部与外部等非线性因素的影响,采用扩张状态观测器对“总和”扰动进行观测与补偿。 在采用自抗扰控制的航向角反馈控制回路的基础上,增加航向角速度内环,降低系统对扰动的灵敏度,改造被控对象的传递函数,为外环路提供良好的被控对象模型。最后,通过仿真实验验证了该控制方法的有效性。     

正弦干扰下时滞系统的状态预测观测器与前馈-反馈预测控制器设计

研究控制变量含有时滞的线性系统在外部正弦干扰下的最优减振预测控制问题。利用系统的控制向量和被控对象的预测输出向量 ,设计了 1种全维状态预测观测器。并将该状态观测器用于时滞控制系统的最优前馈 -反馈预测控制中。频域分析表明 ,应用该状态预测观测器可将闭环系统的时滞项移至系统闭环结构之外 ,从而其优化控制规律完全可以按无时滞系统进行设计。时域分析表明 ,设计的预测控制器对外部正弦干扰有较强的鲁棒性 ,得到的结果关于二次型平均性能指标是次优的     

含有控制时滞系统的输出反馈扰动抑制

研究在持续外界扰动作用下,具有控制时滞线性系统的动态输出反馈扰动抑制问题。首先利用模型转换将控制时滞系统转化为形式上无时滞的系统,通过求解Riccati方程和Sylvester方程,推导出前馈—反馈最优扰动抑制控制律。然后构造能同时预估状态和扰动的降维观测器,不仅解决前馈控制和状态反馈的物理不可实现问题,而且得到了近似于最优扰动抑制控制律的动态输出反馈扰动抑制控制器。仿真实例证明此控制律的有效性。     

基于非线性干扰观测器的UUV反演滑模深度控制

针对水下无人航行器（UUV）在浅水海洋环境下的悬停作业需求,提出一种基于非线性干扰观测器的 UUV 反演滑模深度控制算法。首先,根据全驱动 UUV 的悬停运动特性,建立五自由度及解耦的垂荡通道动力学模型。然后,采用非线性干扰观测器（NDO）对时变海浪扰动与模型的不确定进行有效估计,并证明了 NDO 的指数收敛特性。根据 UUV 的标称模型及 NDO 对扰动状态的估计,采用反演思路,设计了反演滑模控制器。通过引入双曲正切函数取代不连续切换函数,改进滑模趋近律,进而降低滑模的抖振效应。根据 Lyapunov 理论证明了系统的稳定性。最后,通过仿真实验验证了该控制算法的有效性与优越性。     

含确定扰动的线性离散时滞系统的前馈-反馈最优控制

研究在外界持续干扰的动态特征已知的情况下,线性离散时滞系统的前馈-反馈最优控制问题。给出了前馈-反馈最优控制存在的唯一性条件,提出了前馈-反馈最优控制律的逐次逼近算法;通过截取最优控制序列解的有限项,得到系统的前馈-反馈次优控制律,并利用扰动观测器解决了其物理可实现问题。该算法容易实现,计算工作量小,且对外部持续扰动有良好的鲁棒性。仿真结果说明了算法的有效性。     

水下机器人-机械臂系统的滑模自抗扰控制

针对水下机器人机械臂系统的强耦合、强非线性、复杂海洋多源干扰等因素影响,提出了滑模自抗扰控制器,将复杂系统模型转变为简单的积分串联系统,将内部参数不确定性、测量误差、建模误差和海洋多源干扰等扰动归结为总扰动,并采用线性扩张观测器对其进行估计并抵消。利用滑模控制器提高系统对参数摄动的不敏感性,增强控制系统的抗干扰性能,通过李雅普诺夫理论分析了控制系统的有界稳定性。仿真结果表明滑模自抗扰与传统滑模控制和自抗扰控制相比,能使水下机器人机械臂实现更好的轨迹跟踪,且系统具有更好的抗干扰能力。     

基于观测器的分数阶不确定系统保成本控制

本文研究了一类基于观测器的不确定分数阶系统(FOSs)的保成本控制问题,将整数阶系统的理论扩展到分数阶系统。首先,根据分数阶系统的稳定性理论,通过构造Lyapunov函数和分数阶系统的性能指标函数,以线性矩阵不等式(LMI)的形式给出了基于观测器的状态反馈控制系统的保成本控制器的设计方法,该控制器不仅保证了不确定分数阶系统的渐近稳定性,而且使其性能指标达到了合适的水平。然后,通过求解线性矩阵不等式的可行性问题,给出了控制器和观测器的增益。最后,给出了一个数值算例,验证了结果的有效性。     

基于扰动观测器的非奇异模糊滑模无人船编队控制

针对含有模型参数不确定性、外界干扰与抖振现象的无人船编队问题,提出了一种基于扰动观测器的非奇异模糊终端滑模编队控制方法。首先,将领航者–跟随者与人工势场法相结合,获得无人船的编队构型并保证无碰撞现象;其次,基于Lyapunov能量函数设计出模糊控制规则,消除了控制器中的抖振问题;进而,提出了一种扰动观测器来补偿未知动态和外界干扰,增强了系统的鲁棒性和稳定性。通过理论分析和仿真结果验证了所提控制方法的有效性。基于所设计的编队控制方法,无人船最终可形成期望的编队构型。     

含输入和输出时滞离散时间系统的最优跟踪控制

针对一类含有输入时滞和输出时滞的离散时间系统,给出了一种无时滞转换方法,并给出了此类系统在受扰情况下的最优跟踪控制律。为避免求解含有超前项和时滞项的两点边值问题,对原时滞系统进行了无时滞转换。根据系统的最优控制理论,构造了转换后系统的二次性能指标。通过求解Riccati差分方程得到了最优跟踪控制律。构造了扰动外系统观测器和参考输入外系统观测器来解决最优跟踪控制律中所含有的前馈项的物理不可实现问题。仿真实例表明所提出的最优跟踪控制律有效。     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Deep-Sea Sediment Compression Curves: Some Controlling Factors, Spurious Overconsolidation, Predictions, and Geophysical Reproduction

Oedometer tests have been carried out on 70 undisturbed surficial clays (at approximately 250 mm below the mudline), mostly collected by free-fall corers from sites widely scattered throughout the deep-sea North Atlantic. Acoustic measurements were also made, initially on contiguous samples and ultimately on the same sample using a geophysically instrumented oedometer which also collected electrical resistivity data. Apart from those quiescent areas below the carbonate compensation depth, such as north of the West Indies where very fine clays exist, most of the samples are silty clays whose geotechnical-geophysical properties are dependent on the type of clay minerals present (and their ability to take in moisture), the sand-size fraction, and the quantity of carbonate present. Thus the pure clays have high compressibilities which decrease on the addition of coarse particles, while the converse is true for the acoustic parameters, these increasing with the sand fraction. Using the notion of the intrinsic compression line for all samples, and comparison to it of the measured compression curves, it is clear that, contrary to some previously held ideas, most deep-sea clays are normally consolidated; the addition of carbonate has the effect of creating an open, stronger sediment skeleton. Interestingly, where information is available, the variation with depth of a sample's acoustic velocity follows the void ratio pressure relationship of the compression curve. This allows the construction of an in-situ sediment compression curve using the in-situ geophysical observations.