Line-of-sight guidance law for path following of amphibious hovercrafts with big and time-varying sideslip compensation

• Published in: Ocean engineering Vol. 172; pp. 531 - 540
• Main Authors: Wang, Yuanhui, Tong, Haiyan, Fu, Mingyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 15.01.2019
• Subjects: Amphibious hovercrafts; Bounded-gain-forgetting estimator; Line-of-sight; Path following; Time-varying sideslip; Amphibious hovercrafts; Time-varying sideslip; Line-of-sight; Path following; Bounded-gain-forgetting estimator

We present a novel nonlinear adaptive path following controller that compensates for drift forces though time-varying sideslip for amphibious hovercrafts. The sideslip arises and changes with time during path following when the hovercraft is subject to drift forces caused by ocean disturbances or co...