Output feedback tracking of ships

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 442-448

  Wondergem, Michiel ^a   Lefeber, Erjen ^b   Pettersen, Kristin Y ^c   Nijmeijer, Henk ^b  

^a Marine Structure Consultants bv   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Experiments; Marine systems; Nonlinear control; Observer design; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CENTRIPETAL FORCE; CONTROL DESIGN; CORIOLIS; GAIN TUNING; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; MARINE SYSTEMS; NON LINEAR CONTROL; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR DAMPING; OBSERVER DESIGN; ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS; OUTPUT FEEDBACK; SEMI-GLOBAL; SHIP DYNAMICS; SIMULATION RESULT; SUPPLY SHIPS; THEORETICAL RESULT; TRACKING; TRACKING CONTROLS;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; SHIPS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 79951950020     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2010.2045654     Document Type: Article

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