Control of Ships and Underwater Vehicles : Design for Underactuated and Nonlinear Marine Systems - Do, Khac Duc.; Pan, Jie.; SpringerLink (Online service) (London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
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 Serret-Frenet 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.
Keywords: Control engineering; Mechanical engineering; Ocean engineering; Control and Systems Theory; Mechanical Engineering; Offshore Engineering