Control of Ships and Underwater Vehicles [electronic resource] : Design for Underactuated and Nonlinear Marine Systems / by Khac Duc Do, Jie Pan.

Mathematical Tools -- Mathematical Preliminaries -- Modeling and Control Properties of Ocean Vessels -- Modeling of Ocean Vessels -- Control Properties and Previous Work on Control of Ocean Vessels -- Control of Underactuated Ships -- Trajectory-tracking Control of Underactuated Ships -- Simultaneous Stabilization and Trajectory-tracking Control of Underactuated Ships -- Partial-state and Output Feedback Trajectory-tracking Control of Underactuated Ships -- Path-tracking Control of Underactuated Ships -- Way-point Tracking Control of Underactuated Ships -- Path-following of Underactuated Ships Using SerretFrenet Coordinates -- Path-following of Underactuated Ships Using Polar Coordinates -- Control of Underactuated Underwater Vehicles -- Trajectory-tracking Control of Underactuated Underwater Vehicles -- Path-following of Underactuated Underwater Vehicles -- Control of Other Underactuated Mechanical Systems -- Control of Other Underactuated Mechanical Systems -- Conclusions and Perspectives.

Most ocean vessels are underactuated but control of their motion in the real ocean environment is essential. Control of Ships and Underwater Vehicles concentrates on the control of underactuated ocean vessels both surface and submarine. Having more degrees of freedom to be controlled than the number of independent control inputs these vessels give rise to numerous challenges within the area of applied nonlinear control which are of growing concern because of their prevalence. Starting with a review of the necessary background on ocean-vessel dynamics and nonlinear control theory, the authors systematic approach is based on various nontrivial coordinate transformations coupled with advanced nonlinear control design methods building on Lyapunovs direct method, backstepping, and parameter projection techniques. This strategy is then used for the development and analysis of a number of ocean-vessel control systems with the aim of achieving advanced motion control tasks including stabilization, trajectory-tracking, path-tracking and path-following. Control of Ships and Underwater Vehicles offers the reader: new results in the nonlinear control ofunderactuated ocean vessels that counter environmental disturbances induced by wind, waves and ocean currents; efficient designs for the practical implementation of controllers on underactuated ocean vessels; extensive numerical simulations and real-time implementations of the control systems designed on a scale-model ship for each controller developed to illustrate their effectiveness and afford practical guidance; and general methods and strategies for solving nonlinear control problems of other underactuated systems including underactuated land and aerial vehicles. Written for researchers in and practitioners of control engineering applied to marine technology this monograph provides a variety of solutions to advanced feedback control topics of practical significance in underactuated ocean vessels. Its self-contained, from-the-basics style also makes it a useful resource for graduate students in marine control and readers interested in learning through self-study.

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