Position Tracking for a Nonlinear Underactuated Hovercraft: Controller Design and Experimental Results

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3858-3863

  Aguiar, António Pedro ^a   Cremean, Lars ^b   Hespanha, João Pedro ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CUSHION VEHICLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAJECTORIES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHCILES; MULTI-VEHICLE WIRELESS TESTBED (MVWT);

CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 1542349310     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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