A relaxed criterion for contraction theory: Application to an underwater vehicle observer

European Control Conference, ECC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2999-3004

  Jouffroy, Jérôme ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Contraction theory; Exponential convergence; Nonlinear observers

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

CONTRACTION THEORY; EIGEN-VALUE; EXPONENTIAL CONVERGENCE; LYAPUNOV THEORIES; NON-LINEAR OBSERVER; POSITIVE VALUE; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 84949102384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2003.7086498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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