The Development of a MOOS-IvP-Based Control System for a Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

This paper designed a control system of small autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV). A distributed control architecture that is MOOS-IvP is applied in this control system. Using this control architecture, there are distribute and modular characteristic in this control system. It comprises of the sensor module, the propulsion module, the fault detection module, the data log module, the device initialize module, the navigation module, the control module and the intelligent decision module. This control system can realize the constant depth control, the constant heading control, the constant speed control and the waypoint behavior control. We finished these control experiments and verified this control system by the lake experiment in June 2015.