Title
Global stable tracking control of underactuated ships with input saturation
Abstract
In this paper, tracking control of underactuated ship in the presence of input saturation is addressed. By dividing the tracking error dynamic system into a cascade of two subsystems, the torques in surge and yaw axes are designed separately using the backstepping technique. More specifically, we design the yaw axis torque in such a way that its corresponding subsystem is finite time stable, which makes it to be de-coupled from the second subsystem after a finite time. This enables us to design the torque in the surge axis independently. It is shown that the closed-loop system is stable and the mean-square tracking errors can be made arbitrarily small by choosing design parameters. Simulation results also verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.sysconle.2015.07.002
Systems & Control Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Tracking control,Underactuated ships,Input saturation
Backstepping,Torque,Aircraft principal axes,Division (mathematics),Control theory,Control engineering,Cascade,Surge,Underactuation,Mathematics,Tracking error
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
85
0167-6911
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.71
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiangshuai Huang138618.80
Changyun Wen23686284.86
Wei Wang365829.49
Yong-Duan Song41949108.61