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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the hydrodynamics of planing hulls

S Tavakoli, M Zhang, AA Kondratenko, S Hirdaris - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The topology of planing hulls entails some of the most innovative specifications found in
modern advanced marine vehicles. Planing hull designs can vary depending on their …

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 …

Handbook of marine craft hydrodynamics and motion control

TI Fossen - John Willy & Sons Ltd, 2011 - books.google.com
The technology of hydrodynamic modeling and marine craft motion control systems has
progressed greatly in recent years. This timely survey includes the latest tools for analysis …

Deep reinforcement learning-based controller for path following of an unmanned surface vehicle

J Woo, C Yu, N Kim - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based controller for path following of an
unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is proposed. The proposed controller can self-develop a …

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 …

Guidance and control based on adaptive sliding mode strategy for a USV subject to uncertainties

A Gonzalez-Garcia, H Castañeda - IEEE Journal of Oceanic …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses a guidance and control strategy for an unmanned surface vehicle
subject to uncertainties. The controller uses a dynamic three-degree-of-freedom model with …

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 …

An improved stanley guidance law for large curvature path following of unmanned surface vehicle

X Yang, X Yan, W Liu, H Ye, Z Du, W Zhong - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to enhance the large curvature path following performance of unmanned surface
vehicle (USV), an improved Stanley guidance law (ISGL) is proposed. To the best of our …

Deep reinforcement learning based controller for ship navigation

R Deraj, RSS Kumar, MS Alam, A Somayajula - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A majority of marine accidents that occur can be attributed to errors in human decisions.
Through automation, the occurrence of such incidents can be minimized. Therefore …