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 …

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 …

Finite-time extended state observer-based super-twisting sliding mode controller for PMSM drives with inertia identification

Q Hou, S Ding - IEEE Transactions on Transportation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article designs a novel finite-time extended state observer (FTESO)-based super-
twisting sliding mode (STSM) control scheme to promote the anti-disturbance property and …

Fixed-time resilient edge-triggered estimation and control of surface vehicles for cooperative target tracking under attacks

S Gao, Z Peng, L Liu, D Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with the cooperative target tracking of under-actuated unmanned
surface vehicles (USVs) with event-triggered communications subject to denial-of-service …

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 …

Fixed-time sliding mode output feedback tracking control for autonomous underwater vehicle with prescribed performance constraint

H Sun, G Zong, J Cui, K Shi - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies the trajectory tracking control problem for autonomous underwater
vehicles (AUVs) subject to external disturbances and model uncertainties. To improve the …

Observer-based fixed-time continuous nonsingular terminal sliding mode control of quadrotor aircraft under uncertainties and disturbances for robust trajectory …

O Mechali, L Xu, Y Huang, M Shi, X **e - Control Engineering Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper solves an accurate fixed-time attitude and position control problems of a
quadrotor UAV system. The aircraft system is subject to nonlinearities, parameter …

Nonsingular practical fixed-time adaptive output feedback control of MIMO nonlinear systems

H Xu, D Yu, S Sui, YP Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the nonsingular fixed-time control problem of multiple-input multiple-
output (MIMO) nonlinear systems with unmeasured states for the first time. A state observer …

Output-feedback flocking control of multiple autonomous surface vehicles based on data-driven adaptive extended state observers

Z Peng, L Liu, J Wang - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses an output-feedback flocking control problem for a swarm of
autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) to follow a leading ASV guided via a parameterized …

Cooperative target tracking of multiple autonomous surface vehicles under switching interaction topologies

L Ma, YL Wang, QL Han - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with the cooperative target tracking of multiple autonomous surface
vehicles (ASVs) under switching interaction topologies. For the target to be tracked, only its …