“…Consider a family of the fully actuated marine surface vessels with a symmetric positive definite inertia matrix with η =[ x , y , ψ ] T , ν =[ u , v , r ] T , and where ( x , y ) and ψ are the position and heading of the vehicle in an earth‐fixed frame, respectively; ( u , v ) and r are the linear velocities and angular rate in a body‐fixed frame, respectively; denotes the environmental disturbances; is the inertia matrix; is the Coriolis and centripetal matrix; represents the damping matrix; is the vector of control inputs; R ( ψ ) is the rotation matrix with R T ( ψ ) R ( ψ )= I for all with I being an identity matrix. A practical example of (1) is Cybership II as given by Skjetne et al Since M needs to be symmetric positive definite, the vessel with deadwood is out of the range of this study.…”