%0 Journal Article %T Modeling and Control of a Micro AUV: Objects Follower Approach %+ École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne) %+ Département STIC [Brest] (STIC) %A Monroy-Anieva, Jesus %A Rouvière, Cyril %A Campos-Mercado, Eduardo %A Salgado-Jimenez, Tomas %A Garcia-Valdovinos, Luis %Z SENER-CONACyT Hydrocarbons Sectorial Fund - 201441 %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1424-8220 %J Sensors %I MDPI %V 18 %N 8 %P 2574 %8 2018-08 %D 2018 %R 10.3390/s18082574 %K Stability %K Nonlinear PD %K Computer vision %K Submarine robot %K Modeling %K Control %K Embedded system %K Micro vehicle %Z Engineering Sciences [physics] %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/AutomaticJournal articles %X This work describes the modeling, control and development of a low cost Micro Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (mu-AUV), named AR2D2. The main objective of this work is to make the vehicle to detect and follow an object with defined color by means of the readings of a depth sensor and the information provided by an artificial vision system. A nonlinear PD (Proportional-Derivative) controller is implemented on the vehicle in order to stabilize the heave and surge movements. A formal stability proof of the closed-loop system using Lyapunov's theory is given. Furthermore, the performance of the mu-AUV is validated through numerical simulations in MatLab and real-time experiments. %G English %L hal-01917091 %U https://hal-ensta-bretagne.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01917091 %~ ENSTA-BRETAGNE %~ ENSTA-BRETAGNE-STIC %~ TDS-MACS