Control of an AUV in the vertical and horizontal planes: System design and tests at sea

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 126-138

  Silvestre, C ^a   Pascoal, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; gain scheduled control; H infinity control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; MANEUVERABILITY; SUBMERSIBLES;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUV); NONLINEAR GAIN SCHEDULED CONTROL;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031331972     PISSN: 01423312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014233129701900303     Document Type: Article

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