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 …

Neural prompt search

Y Zhang, K Zhou, Z Liu - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The size of vision models has grown exponentially over the last few years, especially after
the emergence of Vision Transformer. This has motivated the development of parameter …

Finite-time velocity-free rendezvous control of multiple AUV systems with intermittent communication

B Chen, J Hu, Y Zhao, BK Ghosh - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, a finite-time velocity-free rendezvous control method is considered for multiple
autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems with intermittent undirected communication …

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 …

Energy tradeoff-oriented quasi-optimal distributed affine formation maneuver control for electric marine surface vehicles

B Huang, C Zhu, Y Xu, G Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A green-oriented transition of energy has propelled the thriving development of the electric
marine surface vehicle fleet (EMSVF). To extend the application potential in marine …

UDE-based distributed formation control for MSVs with collision avoidance and connectivity preservation

S He, SL Dai, Z Zhao, T Zou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Limited computational resource is one of the features of the embedded system including
unmanned marine surface vehicle (MSV). Under this practical constraint, we aim to develop …

A survey on the control lyapunov function and control barrier function for nonlinear-affine control systems

B Li, S Wen, Z Yan, G Wen… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey provides a brief overview on the control Lyapunov function (CLF) and control
barrier function (CBF) for general nonlinear-affine control systems. The problem of control is …

Distributed path following of multiple under-actuated autonomous surface vehicles based on data-driven neural predictors via integral concurrent learning

L Liu, D Wang, Z Peng, QL Han - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the problem of distributed path following of multiple under-actuated
autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) with completely unknown kinetic models. An integrated …

Data-driven adaptive disturbance observers for model-free trajectory tracking control of maritime autonomous surface ships

Z Peng, D Wang, J Wang - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we address the disturbance/uncertainty estimation of maritime autonomous
surface ships (MASSs) with unknown internal dynamics, unknown external disturbances …