Abstract
Stabilisation is an issue of great practical importance to the ship industry. This study considers the global asymptotic stability controller for a class of underactuated surface vessel possessing non-diagonal inertia and damping matrices. For the synthesis of controller, the investigated underactuated model is first converted into two cascade connected subsystems using input and state transformations. For these subsystems, it is shown that the stabilisation problem of this study can be reduced to the one of the second subsystem. By combining the method of adding a power integrator and the direct Lyapunov approach, a finite time switching control strategy is developed guaranteeing global asymptotic convergence of the full states to origin. The simulation results testify to the effectiveness of the presented control approach.
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