Output Feedback Integrated Guidance and Control Design for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Against Maneuvering Targets.

Traditional guidance and control systems often treat guidance and control systems separately, leading to reduced interception accuracy and responsiveness, especially during high-speed terminal trajectories. These limitations are further exacerbated in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) due to unknown wave/current disturbances, harsh underwater acoustic conditions, and limited sensor capabilities. To address these challenges, this paper studies an integrated guidance and control (IGC) design for AUVs intercepting maneuvering targets with unknown disturbances and unmeasurable system states. The IGC model is derived based on the relative motion equations between the AUV and the target, incorporating the lateral dynamics of the AUV. A model transformation is introduced to synthesize external disturbances with unmeasurable states, extending the resultant disturbance to a new system state. A finite-time convergent extended state observer (ESO) is thus designed for the transformed system to estimate the unknown signals. Using these estimates from the observer, a finite-time event-triggered sliding mode controller is developed, ensuring finite-time convergence of system errors to an adjustable residual set, as rigorously proven through Lyapunov stability analysis. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in achieving higher interception accuracy and faster response compared to traditional guidance and control approaches with unknown disturbances and unmeasurable states.