Line Feature Based Visual Servo Control with TDE for Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems Target Grasping

Underwater vehicle manipulator systems (UVMSs) is becoming a research hotspot in the field of marine intelligent equipment. Introducing visual feedback equipped with cameras in the loop to guide UVMS to complete the grasping has comprehensive advantages of response speed, work efficiency and intelligence. In this paper, mapping between the feature error and the motion of the UVMS generalized degrees of freedom is established to realize the suspended grasping under the coordinated motion of the vehicle body and the manipulator. Then, a UVMS motion control algorithm based on time delay estimation (TDE) is constructed for visual servo autonomous grasping process, the TDE of which is used to estimate and compensate the lumped interference in real time. The Lyapunov theory is applied to analyze its stability and its control performance is verified through simulation experiments. The simulation results shew the effectiveness of the proposed visual servo control with TED method based on line features.