Course Control of Underactuated Ship Based on Nonlinear Robust Neural Network Backstepping Method

The problem of course control for underactuated surface ship is addressed in this paper. Firstly, neural networks are adopted to determine the parameters of the unknown part of ideal virtual backstepping control, even the weight values of neural network are updated by adaptive technique. Then unifor...

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Main Authors: Junjia Yuan, Hao Meng, Qidan Zhu, Jiajia Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3013280
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Summary:The problem of course control for underactuated surface ship is addressed in this paper. Firstly, neural networks are adopted to determine the parameters of the unknown part of ideal virtual backstepping control, even the weight values of neural network are updated by adaptive technique. Then uniform stability for the convergence of course tracking errors has been proven through Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, simulation experiments are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of proposed control method.
ISSN:1687-5265
1687-5273