Semi-Global Practical Stabilization and Disturbance Adaptation for an Underactuated Ship

We consider the problem of stabilizing the position and orientation of a ship to constant desired values, when the ship has only two independent controls and also the ship is subject to an environmental force of unknown magnitude. We propose a time-varying feedback control law and a disturbance adap...

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Main Authors: Kristin Y. Pettersen, Henk Nijmeijer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Society of Automatic Control 2001-04-01
Series:Modeling, Identification and Control
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Online Access:http://www.mic-journal.no/PDF/2001/MIC-2001-2-3.pdf