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Comments on ``Nonlinear Output Feedback Control of Dynamically Positioned Ships Using Vectorial observer Backstepping''

Robertsson, Anders LU and Johansson, Rolf LU orcid (1998) In IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology 6(3). p.439-441
Abstract
The decomposition of nonlinear output feedback control into an observer and a state feedback control is an open problem. A solution for dynamic positioning of ships has been proposed in the above paper (1) and by Grovlen and Fossen, where an observer-based backstepping method is used. This note points out that the observer design in the above-mentioned papers does not cover unstable ship dynamics and suggests a remedy for an extended class of ships. The proof for the nonlinear observer used in the design in the above-mentioned papers only applies to ships with stable sway yaw dynamics. In the above-mentioned papers an example concerning thruster assisted mooring of a tanker is given, which does not fulfill the needed stability properties,... (More)
The decomposition of nonlinear output feedback control into an observer and a state feedback control is an open problem. A solution for dynamic positioning of ships has been proposed in the above paper (1) and by Grovlen and Fossen, where an observer-based backstepping method is used. This note points out that the observer design in the above-mentioned papers does not cover unstable ship dynamics and suggests a remedy for an extended class of ships. The proof for the nonlinear observer used in the design in the above-mentioned papers only applies to ships with stable sway yaw dynamics. In the above-mentioned papers an example concerning thruster assisted mooring of a tanker is given, which does not fulfill the needed stability properties, so an extension to this case is highly motivated. We propose a method to extend the results, under a detectability condition. This condition implies stable surge dynamics, which is a natural assumption for ships. (Less)
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Marine systems, nonlinear systems, observer design, stability, state estimation.
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  abstract     = {{The decomposition of nonlinear output feedback control into an observer and a state feedback control is an open problem. A solution for dynamic positioning of ships has been proposed in the above paper (1) and by Grovlen and Fossen, where an observer-based backstepping method is used. This note points out that the observer design in the above-mentioned papers does not cover unstable ship dynamics and suggests a remedy for an extended class of ships. The proof for the nonlinear observer used in the design in the above-mentioned papers only applies to ships with stable sway yaw dynamics. In the above-mentioned papers an example concerning thruster assisted mooring of a tanker is given, which does not fulfill the needed stability properties, so an extension to this case is highly motivated. We propose a method to extend the results, under a detectability condition. This condition implies stable surge dynamics, which is a natural assumption for ships.}},
  author       = {{Robertsson, Anders and Johansson, Rolf}},
  keywords     = {{Marine systems; nonlinear systems; observer design; stability; state estimation.}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{439--441}},
  series       = {{IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology}},
  title        = {{Comments on ``Nonlinear Output Feedback Control of Dynamically Positioned Ships Using Vectorial observer Backstepping''}},
  volume       = {{6}},
  year         = {{1998}},
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