Adaptive robust dissipative designs on straight path control for underactuated ships

1.INTRODUCTIONIn practice,long-distance navigation tasks of shipsare frequently carried out while traveling via way-points on a straight path at constant cruise speed.Whenthe linear course is tracked,only the yaw mo-ment is served as control input to drive the sway dis-placement,sway velocity and heading angle while thesurge velocityis maintained bythe mainthruster con-trol system,which is referred to as underactuatedconfiguration.So it becomes very difficult to deviseanideal tracking algo…

Adaptive robust dissipative designs on straight path control for underactuated ships

An adaptive robust control algorithm for ship straight path control system in the presence of both modeling uncertainties and the bounded disturbances is proposed. Motivated by the backstepping approach, the algorithm is developed by using the dissipation theory, such that the resulting closed-loop system is both strictly dissipative and asymptotically adaptively stable for all admissible uncertainties. Also, it is able to steer an underactuated ship along a prescribed straight path with ultimate bounds under external disturbances induced by wave, wind and ocean current. When there are no disturbances, the straight path control can be implemented in a locally asymptotically stable manner. Simulation results on an ocean-going training ship ‘YULONG’ are presented to validate the effectiveness of the algorithm.