Stability and bifurcation of autonomous vehicles in the presence of positional information time lags

The track keeping characteristics of an autonomous ocean vehicle in the presence of a realistic time lag on the vehicle's position information is examined in two ways. A Hopf bifurcation analysis is applied to better predict vehicle behavior within its region of linearized classical stability....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cummings, George P.
Other Authors: Fotis A. Papoulias
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26264