Modeling, Identification and Control (Apr 2001)
Semi-Global Practical Stabilization and Disturbance Adaptation for an Underactuated Ship
Abstract
We consider the problem of stabilizing the position and orientation of a ship to constant desired values, when the ship has only two independent controls and also the ship is subject to an environmental force of unknown magnitude. We propose a time-varying feedback control law and a disturbance adaptation law, and show that this provides semi-global practical asymptotic stability. The control and adaptation laws are derived using a combined integrator backstepping and averaging approach. Simulation results are presented.
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