Advances in line-of-sight guidance for path following of autonomous marine vehicles: An overview

N Gu, D Wang, Z Peng, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs), including autonomous surface and underwater
vehicles, are versatile means to explore, exploit, monitor, and protect marine resources and …

An overview of recent advances in coordinated control of multiple autonomous surface vehicles

Z Peng, J Wang, D Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) are marine vessels capable of performing various
marine operations without a crew in a variety of cluttered and hostile water/ocean …

1 bit encoding–decoding-based event-triggered fixed-time adaptive control for unmanned surface vehicle with guaranteed tracking performance

X Song, C Wu, V Stojanovic, S Song - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the fixed-time prescribed performance trajectory tracking control for
the unmanned surface vehicle with unknown dynamics and disturbances. At first, an …

Data-driven performance-prescribed reinforcement learning control of an unmanned surface vehicle

N Wang, Y Gao, X Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An unmanned surface vehicle (USV) under complicated marine environments can hardly be
modeled well such that model-based optimal control approaches become infeasible. In this …

Disturbance observers and extended state observers for marine vehicles: A survey

N Gu, D Wang, Z Peng, J Wang, QL Han - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
The operation performance of marine vehicles (MVs) is significantly vulnerable to external
disturbances induced by wind, waves, and ocean currents in complex marine environments …

Reinforcement learning-based optimal tracking control of an unknown unmanned surface vehicle

N Wang, Y Gao, H Zhao, CK Ahn - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel reinforcement learning-based optimal tracking control (RLOTC)
scheme is established for an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the presence of complex …

Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges

Z Liu, Y Zhang, X Yu, C Yuan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2016 - Elsevier
With growing worldwide interest in commercial, scientific, and military issues associated with
both oceans and shallow waters, there has been a corresponding growth in demand for the …

Cooperative USV–UAV marine search and rescue with visual navigation and reinforcement learning-based control

Y Wang, W Liu, J Liu, C Sun - ISA transactions, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates visual navigation and control of a cooperative unmanned surface
vehicle (USV)-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for marine search and rescue. First, a …

Leader–follower formation control of USVs with prescribed performance and collision avoidance

S He, M Wang, SL Dai, F Luo - IEEE transactions on industrial …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses a decentralized leader-follower formation control problem for a group
of fully actuated unmanned surface vehicles with prescribed performance and collision …

Output-feedback cooperative formation maneuvering of autonomous surface vehicles with connectivity preservation and collision avoidance

Z Peng, D Wang, T Li, M Han - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a cooperative time-varying formation maneuvering problem with connectivity
preservation and collision avoidance is investigated for a fleet of autonomous surface …