Coordinated path-following control for a group of underactuated surface vessels

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3951-3963

  Ghommam, Jawhar ^a   Mnif, Faïçal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Backstepping technique; Coordination control; Graph theory; Lyapunov theory; Path following; Time delay; Underactuated ships

Indexed keywords

BACKSTEPPING TECHNIQUE; COORDINATION CONTROL; LYAPUNOV THEORY; PATH FOLLOWING; UNDERACTUATED SHIPS;

BACKSTEPPING; CONTROLLERS; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME DELAY;

SHIPS;

EID: 70349614162     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2028362     Document Type: Article

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