Path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints

This paper presents a constructive design of new controllers that force underactuated ships under constant or slow time-varying sea loads to asymptotically track a parameterized reference path, that guarantees the distance from the ship to the reference path always be within a specified value. The c...

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Main Author: Do, Khac Duc
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0988424
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46037
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description This paper presents a constructive design of new controllers that force underactuated ships under constant or slow time-varying sea loads to asymptotically track a parameterized reference path, that guarantees the distance from the ship to the reference path always be within a specified value. The control design is based on a global exponential disturbance observer, a transformation of the ship dynamics to an almost spherical form, an interpretation of the tracking errors in an earth-fixed frame, an introduction of dynamic variables to compensate for relaxation of the reference path generation, p-times differentiable step functions, and backstepping and Lyapunov’s direct methods. The effectiveness of the proposed results is illustrated through simulations.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-460372017-09-13T15:05:24Z Path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints Do, Khac Duc This paper presents a constructive design of new controllers that force underactuated ships under constant or slow time-varying sea loads to asymptotically track a parameterized reference path, that guarantees the distance from the ship to the reference path always be within a specified value. The control design is based on a global exponential disturbance observer, a transformation of the ship dynamics to an almost spherical form, an interpretation of the tracking errors in an earth-fixed frame, an introduction of dynamic variables to compensate for relaxation of the reference path generation, p-times differentiable step functions, and backstepping and Lyapunov’s direct methods. The effectiveness of the proposed results is illustrated through simulations. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46037 10.1007/s11804-015-1329-3 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0988424 restricted
spellingShingle Do, Khac Duc
Path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints
title Path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints
title_full Path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints
title_fullStr Path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints
title_full_unstemmed Path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints
title_short Path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints
title_sort path-tracking control of underactuated ships under tracking error constraints
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0988424
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46037