Nonlinear formation-keeping and mooring control of multiple autonomous underwater vehicles

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-178

  Yang, Erfu ^a,b   Gu, Dongbing ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); Formation control; Integrator backstepping; Lyapunov direct method; Nonholonomic systems

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MOORING; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

FORMATION CONTROL; INTEGRATOR BACKSTEPPING; LYAPUNOV DIRECT METHOD; NONHOLONOMIC SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 34247340031     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.892826     Document Type: Article

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