<![CDATA[Underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is important in underwater industries as well as for safety purposes. It can dive deeper than humans and can replace humans in a hazardous underwater environment. ROV depth control is difficult due to the hydrodynamic of the ROV itself and the underwater environment. Overshoot in the depth control may cause damage to the ROV and its investigated location. This paper presenting a new tuning approach of single input fuzzy logic controller (SIFLC) with gradient descent algorithm (GDA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) implementation for ROV depth control. The ROV was modeled using system identification to simulate the depth system. Proportional integral derivative (PID) controller was applied to the model as a basic controller. SIFLC was then implemented in three tuning approaches which are heuristic, GDA, and PSO. The output transient was simulated using MATLAB Simulink and the percent overshoot (OS), time rise (Tr), and settling time (Ts) of the systems without and with controllers were compared and analyzed. The result shows that SIFLC GDA output has the best transient result at 0.1021% (OS), 0.7992s (Tr), and 0.9790s (Ts).]]>
