Research on heading control of Air Cushion Vehicle

Air cushion vehicle (ACV) is a type of high performance watercraft. ACV can be propelled forward over the water, the ground and swale. It is widely used in both the civilian and military. Its operation is very different from general ships because of the structural particularity. We designed PID controller and neural net (NN) controller used for ACV heading control. Simulation results show that NN controller performs better than normal PID controller in heading control of ACV, especially when ACV is disturbed by wind.