Regulation of a nonholonomic autonomous underwater vehicle with parametric modeling uncertainty using Lyapunov functions

A.P. Aguiar, A.M. Pascoal
Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228)  
This paper addresses the problem of regulating the dynamic model of a nonholonomic underactuated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to a point with a desired orientation. A time-invariant discontinuous controller is proposed that yields convergence of the trajectories of the closed-loop system in the presence of parametric modeling uncertainty. Controller design relies on a non smooth coordinate transformation in the original state space followed by the derivation of a Lyapunov-based,
more » ... smooth control law in the new coordinates. Convergence of the regulation system is analyzed and simulation results are presented.
doi:10.1109/cdc.2001.980841 fatcat:tux5h4sdfrhixcsnacak4zjt6i