摘要

Marine dynamic positioning system (DPS) is widely used for ocean exploration. DPS consists of control subsystem, thrust allocation (TA) subsystem, thruster control subsystem and sensor measurement subsystem. Thrust allocation method is of great importance for TA subsystem. The aim of TA is to achieve an optimal and effective allocation. In this study, an improved TA method is proposed based on null space and optimizing adaptive method. The effectiveness of proposed method is demonstrated via comparisons with several existing methods.