Handbook of marine craft hydrodynamics and motion control

TI Fossen - John Willy & Sons Ltd, 2011 - books.google.com
The technology of hydrodynamic modeling and marine craft motion control systems has
progressed greatly in recent years. This timely survey includes the latest tools for analysis …

Integral line-of-sight guidance and control of underactuated marine vehicles: Theory, simulations, and experiments

W Caharija, KY Pettersen, M Bibuli… - … on Control Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an extensive analysis of the integral line-of-sight (ILOS) guidance
method for path-following tasks of underactuated marine vehicles, operating on and below …

Leader–follower formation control of underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles

R Cui, SS Ge, BVE How, YS Choo - Ocean Engineering, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the leader–follower formation control of multiple underactuated
autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). In the proposed leader–follower control, the …

Integral LOS path following for curved paths based on a monotone cubic Hermite spline parametrization

AM Lekkas, TI Fossen - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses two interrelated problems concerning the planar three degree-of-
freedom motion of a vehicle, namely, the path planning problem and the guidance problem …

Guidance and control based on adaptive sliding mode strategy for a USV subject to uncertainties

A Gonzalez-Garcia, H Castañeda - IEEE Journal of Oceanic …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses a guidance and control strategy for an unmanned surface vehicle
subject to uncertainties. The controller uses a dynamic three-degree-of-freedom model with …

Finite-time unknown observer-based interactive trajectory tracking control of asymmetric underactuated surface vehicles

N Wang, SF Su - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, a finite-time unknown observer-based interactive trajectory tracking control (FUO-
ITTC) scheme is created for an asymmetric underactuated surface vehicle (AUSV). In lieu of …

[图书][B] Control of ships and underwater vehicles: design for underactuated and nonlinear marine systems

KD Do, J Pan - 2009 - books.google.com
Most ocean vessels are underactuated but control of their motion in the real ocean
environment is essential. Control of Ships and Underwater Vehicles concentrates on the …

[图书][B] Snake robots: modelling, mechatronics, and control

Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots:
robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in …

Distributed formation control of nonholonomic vehicles subject to velocity constraints

X Yu, L Liu - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a leader-follower formation control problem of nonholonomic vehicles
of unicycle-type subject to velocity constraints. The velocity constraints of each vehicle are …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking control of small-scale helicopters using explicit nonlinear MPC augmented with disturbance observers

C Liu, WH Chen, J Andrews - Control Engineering Practice, 2012 - Elsevier
Small-scale helicopters are very attractive for a wide range of civilian and military
applications due to their unique features. However, the autonomous flight for small …