The estimation of wave elevation and wave disturbance caused by the wave orbital motion of a fully submerged hydrofoil craft

The current control system of a fully submerged hydrofoil craft has manual input of fore-foil depth and control mode selection to improve the performance of the control system. However, the manual input needs skillful human operation and observation of waves the encountered to work well over a wide range of waves. In order to use information about the waves encountered in the control system, we considered the estimation of wave elevation and wave disturbance which was caused by the orbital motion of the waves in irregular waves. First, we investigated the wave disturbance by a fully submerged hydrofoil craft, in a state-space model of wave disturbance, and in hydrofoil craft motion, etc. We than considered estimations of the wave elevation and wave disturbance using a shaping filter, a Kalman filter, an autoregressive (AR) model, etc. Finally, we confirmed through simulations that the estimation results and estimation error of wave elevation and wave disturbance were valid.