Do, Khac Duc. <br/><br/>
Control of ships and underwater vehicles :  design for underactuated and nonlinear marine systems / 
Khac Duc Do, Jie Pan. 
 - [New York] :  Springer Verlag  2009. 
 - xvii, 400 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Advances in industrial control .
<br/><br/> .Includes index 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-397)  
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Part I: Mathematical tools -- Mathematical preliminaries -- Part II: Modeling and control properties of ocean vessels -- Modeling of ocean vessels -- Control properties and previous work on control of ocean vessels -- Part III: Control of underactuated ships -- Trajectory-tracking control of underactuated ships -- Simultaneous stabilization and trajectory-tracking control of underactuated ships -- Partial-state and output feedback trajectory-tracking control of underactuated ships -- Path-tracking control of underactuated ships -- Way-point tracking control of underactuated ships -- Path-following of underactuated ships using Serret-Frenet coordinated -- Path-following of underactuated ships using polar coordinates -- Part IV: Control of underactuated underwater vehicles -- Trajectory-tracking control of underactuated underwater vehicles -- Path-following of underactuated underwater vehicles -- Part V: Control of other underactuated mechanical systems -- Control of other underactuated mechanical systems -- Conclusion <br/> .and perspectives 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781848827295 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1848827296 (hbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009931136 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Stability of ships.<br/>Nonlinear control theory.<br/>Underwater navigation--Mathematical models.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>VM161  / .D65 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>623.8  / KDC