This brief presents the design of a controller that allows an underactuated vessel to track a reference trajectory in the x−y plane. A trajectory tracking controller designed originally for robotic systems is applied for ...

In the last years, significant advances in microscopy techniques and the introduction of a novel technology to label living cells with genetically encoded fluorescent proteins revolutionized the field of Cell Biology. Our ...

This paper presents a new controller design to tracking trajectory of a typical chemical process. The plant model is represented by numerical methods and, from this approach, the control actions for an optimal operation ...

This paper develops a trajectory tracking control design algorithm to be applied in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The strategy is simple but effective and it is based on linear algebra theory. The proposed approach ...

The paper presents a nonlinear control law for a marine vessel to track a reference trajectory. In the wake of theresults obtained in [19], an integrative approach is incorporated in the linear algebra methodology in order ...

The paper presents a nonlinear control law for a marine vessel to track a reference trajectory. In the wake of theresults obtained in [19], an integrative approach is incorporated in the linear algebra methodology in order ...

This paper presents the design of a controller that allows a four-rotor helicopter to track a desired trajectory in 3D space. To this aim, a dynamic model obtained from Euler-Lagrange equations describes the robot. This ...

This work presents a novel linear interpolation based methodology to design control algorithms for the trajectory tracking of mobile robotic systems. Particularly, a typical nonlinear multivariable system-a mobile robot-is ...

In this paper, a trajectory tracking control problem for a nonholonomic mobile robot by the integration of a kinematic neural controller (KNC) and a torque neural controller (TNC) is proposed, where both the kinematic and ...