Bearing-only motional target-surrounding control for multiple unmanned surface vessels

BB Hu, HT Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a distributed bearing-only controller for multiple unmanned surface
vessels (USVs) to encircle and rotate evenly around a motional target with inter-USV …

Coordinated control of multiple autonomous surface vehicles: Challenges and advances—A systematic review

MG Osorio, C Ierardi, IJ Flores, MP Martín, PM Gata - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing use and implementation of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) for various
activities in maritime environments is expected to drive a rise in developments and research …

Structure synchronized dynamic event-triggered control for marine ranching AMVs via the multi-task switching guidance

G Zhang, S Yin, C Huang, W Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To improve the autonomy of marine ranching operations, this paper addresses the
cooperative formation control and multi-task switching problem of ranch autonomous marine …

Flexible formation tracking control of multiple unmanned surface vessels for navigating through narrow channels with unknown curvatures

C Tang, HT Zhang, J Wang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a flexible formation tracking control protocol (FFTC) for multiple
unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to pass through narrow water channels with unknown …

Visual navigation and landing control of an unmanned aerial vehicle on a moving autonomous surface vehicle via adaptive learning

HT Zhang, BB Hu, Z Xu, Z Cai, B Liu… - … on Neural Networks …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a visual navigation and landing control paradigm for an unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) to land on a moving autonomous surface vehicle (ASV). Therein, an …

Distributed optimal solutions for multiagent pursuit-evasion games for capture and formation control

P Zhou, BM Chen - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, distributed optimal solutions are designed for networked multiagent pursuit-
evasion (MPE) games for capture and formation control. In the games, the pursuers aim to …

Spontaneous-ordering platoon control for multirobot path navigation using guiding vector fields

BB Hu, HT Zhang, W Yao, J Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a distributed guiding-vector-field (DGVF) algorithm for a team of
robots to form a spontaneous-ordering platoon moving along a predefined desired path in …

Coordinated navigation control of cross-domain unmanned systems via guiding vector fields

BB Hu, HT Zhang, B Liu, J Ding, Y Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a distributed guiding-vector-field (DGVF) controller for cross-domain
unmanned systems (CDUSs) consisting of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles …

Cooperative label-free moving target fencing for second-order multi-agent systems with rigid formation

BB Hu, HT Zhang, Y Shi - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a label-free controller for a second-order multi-agent system to
cooperatively fence a moving target of variational velocity into a convex hull formed by the …

Fully distributed target encircling control of autonomous surface vehicles based on noncooperative games

Y Jiang, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses cooperative target encircling of multiple autonomous surface vehicles
(ASVs) with private and potentially competitive objectives. A fully distributed encircling …