Path following control of underactuated ships based on nonswitch analytic model predictive control

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2010-04-14
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Apathfollowingcontrollerisdevelopedforunderactuatedshipswithonlysurgeforceandyawmomentavailabletofollowapredefinedpath.Theproposedcontrollerisbasedonnonswitchanalyticmodelpredictivecontrol.Itisshownthattheoptimalcontrollawforanonlinearpathfollowingsystemwithill-definedrelativedegreeiscontinuousandnonsingular.Theproblemofill-definedrelativedegreeissolved.Thepath-followingabilityofthenonlinearsystemisguaranteed.Numericalsimulationsareprovidedtodemonstratetheeffectivenessoftheproposedcontrollaw.