Trajectory tracking controller for an underwater hexapod vehicle

OCEANS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Plamondon, Nicolas ^a   Nahon, Meyer ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN SEA; DYNAMICS MODELS; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MCGILL UNIVERSITY; MODEL-BASED; MODEL-BASED CONTROLLER; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROPULSION FORCE; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

BIOMIMETICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIMULATORS; TRAJECTORIES; VEHICLES;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 70350128642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2008.5151830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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