MPC-based motion planning and control enables smarter and safer autonomous marine vehicles: Perspectives and a tutorial survey

H Wei, Y Shi - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs) have received considerable attention in the past few
decades, mainly because they play essential roles in broad marine applications such as …

Advanced model predictive control framework for autonomous intelligent mechatronic systems: A tutorial overview and perspectives

Y Shi, K Zhang - Annual Reviews in Control, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review on the development and application of model predictive
control (MPC) for autonomous intelligent mechatronic systems (AIMS). Starting from the …

Integral LOS path following for curved paths based on a monotone cubic Hermite spline parametrization

AM Lekkas, TI Fossen - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses two interrelated problems concerning the planar three degree-of-
freedom motion of a vehicle, namely, the path planning problem and the guidance problem …

An adaptive line-of-sight (ALOS) guidance law for path following of aircraft and marine craft

TI Fossen - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents a novel nonlinear adaptive line-of-sight (ALOS) guidance law for path
following, compensating for drift forces due to wind, waves, and ocean currents. The ALOS …

On uniform semiglobal exponential stability (USGES) of proportional line-of-sight guidance laws

TI Fossen, KY Pettersen - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a uniform semiglobal exponential stability (USGES) proof for a class of
proportional line-of-sight (LOS) guidance laws used for vehicle path-following control. The …

Path-following control of an AUV: A multiobjective model predictive control approach

C Shen, Y Shi, B Buckham - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The path-following (PF) problem of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is studied, in
which the path convergence is viewed as the main task while the speed profile is also taken …

State-of-the-art research on motion control of maritime autonomous surface ships

L Wang, Q Wu, J Liu, S Li, RR Negenborn - Journal of Marine Science …, 2019 - mdpi.com
At present, with the development of waterborne transport vehicles, research on ship faces a
new round of challenges in terms of intelligence and autonomy. The concept of maritime …

Trajectory tracking of autonomous vessels using model predictive control

H Zheng, RR Negenborn, G Lodewijks - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2014 - Elsevier
Autonomous surface vehicles are with increasing popularity being seen in various
applications where automatic control plays an important role. In this paper the problem of …

A time-varying lookahead distance guidance law for path following

AM Lekkas, TI Fossen - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents a modified version of a well known line-of-sight (LOS) guidance
algorithm for path-following. The proposed method employs a time-varying equation for the …

Robust trajectory tracking for fully-input-bounded actuated unmanned surface vessel with stochastic disturbances: An approach by the homogeneous nonlinear …

H Cao, R Xu, S Zhao, M Li, X Song, H Dai - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, academia, industry, and the government have increased their interests and
found the necessities of develo** unmanned surface vessels (USV) for maritime ship** …