Control of Ships and Underwater Vehicles: Design for Underactuated and Nonlinear Marine Systems

Mathematical Tools.- Mathematical Preliminaries.- Modeling and Control Properties of Ocean Vessels.- Modeling of Ocean Vessels.- Control Properties and Previous Work on Control of Ocean Vessels.- 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 Coordinates.- Path-following of Underactuated Ships Using Polar Coordinates.- Control of Underactuated Underwater Vehicles.- Trajectory-tracking Control of Underactuated Underwater Vehicles.- Path-following of Underactuated Underwater Vehicles.- Control of Other Underactuated Mechanical Systems.- Control of Other Underactuated Mechanical Systems.- Conclusions and Perspectives.