Robust adaptive path following of underactuated ships

K. D. Do, Zhong-Ping Jiang, J. Pan

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Abstract

Robust path following is an issue of vital practical importance to the ship industry. In this paper, a nonlinear robust adaptive control strategy is developed to force an underactuated surface ship to follow a predefined path at a desired speed, despite the presence of environmental disturbances induced by wave, wind and ocean-current. The proposed controller is scalable and is designed using Lyapunov's Direct Method and the popular backstepping and parameter projection techniques. Along the way of proving closed-loop stability, we obtain a new stability result for nonlinear cascade systems with non-vanishing uncertainties. Interestingly, it is shown in this paper that our developed control strategy is easily extendible to situations of practical importance such as parking and point-to-point navigation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Pages3243-3248
Number of pages6
Volume3
StatePublished - 2002
Event41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: Dec 10 2002Dec 13 2002

Other

Other41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period12/10/0212/13/02

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Chemical Health and Safety
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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