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 …

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 …

1 bit encoding–decoding-based event-triggered fixed-time adaptive control for unmanned surface vehicle with guaranteed tracking performance

X Song, C Wu, V Stojanovic, S Song - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the fixed-time prescribed performance trajectory tracking control for
the unmanned surface vehicle with unknown dynamics and disturbances. At first, an …

A general safety-certified cooperative control architecture for interconnected intelligent surface vehicles with applications to vessel train

W Wu, Z Peng, L Liu, D Wang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers cooperative control of interconnected intelligent surface vehicles (ISV)
moving in a complex water surface containing multiple static/dynamic obstacles. Each ISV is …

Optimal fuzzy output feedback control for dynamic positioning of vessels with finite-time disturbance rejection under thruster saturations

X Gao, Y Long, T Li, X Hu, CLP Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the problem of optimal fuzzy output-feedback tracking control for
dynamic positioning of marine vessels simultaneously with model uncertainties, unknown …

A review of current research and advances in unmanned surface vehicles

X Bai, B Li, X Xu, Y **ao - Journal of Marine Science and Application, 2022 - Springer
Following developments in artificial intelligence and big data technology, the level of
intelligence in intelligent vessels has been improved. Intelligent vessels are being …

Safety-certified constrained control of maritime autonomous surface ships for automatic berthing

Z Peng, C Wang, Y Yin, J Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The berthing of maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs) is a challenging operation
even for an experienced captain due to the required complicated maneuvering at low …

Neuro-adaptive distributed formation tracking control of under-actuated unmanned surface vehicles with input quantization

J Ning, T Li, CLP Chen - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper addresses distributed formation control of multiple under-actuated unmanned
surface vehicles (USVs) subject to input quantization, in addition to the unknown dynamics …

Robust state estimation and fault detection for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles considering hydrodynamic effects

J Song, X He - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are designed to operate in complex
external environments, making fault detection crucial to overall safety. While a general …

Output-feedback finite-time safety-critical coordinated control of path-guided marine surface vehicles based on neurodynamic optimization

W Wu, Y Zhang, W Zhang, W **e - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the presence of static and moving obstacles, this article investigates an output-feedback
finite-time safety-critical coordinated control method of multiple under-actuated marine …