An efficient neural network approach to tracking control of an autonomous surface vehicle with unknown dynamics

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1629-1635

  Pan, Chang Zhong ^a,b,c   Lai, Xu Zhi ^a,b   Yang, Simon X ^c   Wu, Min ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous surface vehicles; Lyapunov stability; Neural networks; Robots; Tracking control; Unknown dynamics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED UNKNOWN DISTURBANCES; COMPARISON STUDY; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; DYNAMIC PARAMETERS; ERROR SIGNAL; LYAPUNOV STABILITY; LYAPUNOV STABILITY ANALYSIS; OFF-LINE LEARNING; ONLINE LEARNING; SINGLE-LAYER STRUCTURE; SURFACE VEHICLES; TRACKING CONTROLS; UNIFORMLY ULTIMATELY BOUNDED; VEHICLE DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NAVIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84872041082     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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