Demands for oil and gas are increasing with urbanization and industrialization of the world's
increasing population. Giant oil fields are declining in their production worldwide and this …

The development of autonomous, energy efficient, underwater robots for large areas
exploration has been attracting many researchers, since their use can be effective in several …

This paper focuses on the trajectory tracking control of unmanned underwater vehicles
(UUVs) in the presence of dynamic uncertainties and time-varying external disturbances …

This paper presents a novel three-dimension (3-D) underwater trajectory tracking method for
an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) using model predictive control (MPC). First, the 6 …

During missions at sea, underwater vehicles are exposed to changes in the parameters of
the system and subject to persistent external disturbances. These issues make the design of …

Underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) play an important role in a number of
shallow and deep-water missions for marine science, oil and gas extraction, exploration and …

This paper aims to provide a review of the conceptual design and theoretical framework of
the main control schemes proposed in the literature for unmanned underwater vehicles …

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have become important tools in the ocean
exploration and have drawn considerable attention. Precise control for AUVs is the …

Sliding mode control, due to its robustness against modelling imprecisions and external
disturbances, has been successfully employed to the dynamic positioning of remotely …

In this paper, a new approach of tracking control is investigated for the 7000-m Jiaolong
manned submarine vehicle (MSV). First, the formulation of control allocation problem and …