The invention provides a sliding-
mode control method for parameter-free driving-insufficient UUV (
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle)
vertical plane route tracking. The sliding-
mode control method comprises the following steps: I, performing initialization; II, acquiring a current state of a UUV; III, establishing an
error equation of the horizontal plane of the driving-free UUV so as to obtain position deviation values xe and ze and course deviation value theta e; IV, according to a sliding-
mode control method, respectively designing traveling speed sliding-mode self-
adaptive control rules, position sliding-mode control rules and trimming angle sliding-mode self-
adaptive control rules, controlling propelling force Xprop, an excepted traveling speed U and a torque Mprop, wherein eu is 0, xe is 0 and theta e is 0; V, designing fuzzy control rules for a boundary layer, setting k to be equal to k+1, turning to step II, and updating control rules and self-adaptive rules of a next time. By adopting the sliding-mode control method, a controller for stabilizing a
system can be designed only according to a vertical surface
kinetic model, self-adaptive rules can be designed for water kinetic parameters with uncertainties, furthermore a
control system can be relieved from dependency on parameters, the
system has robustness, and the influence of the uncertainties on the sliding-mode control approaching process can be reduced.