Station keeping and segmented trajectory control of a wind-propelled autonomous catamaran

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2424-2429

  Elkaim, Gabriel ^a   Kelbley, Robert ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; POSITION CONTROL; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTONOMOUS CATAMARAN; PRECISION GUIDANCE; STATION KEEPING; TRAJECTORY CONTROL;

ROBOTS;

EID: 39649116010     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.377466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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