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 …

Spawned by fast paced progress in marine science and technology, the past two decades
have witnessed growing interest in ocean exploration and exploitation for scientific and …

This paper proposes a new class of distributed nonlinear controllers for leader-following
formation control of unicycle robots without global position measurements. Nonlinear small …

In this brief, a novel distributed cascade robust feedback control approach is proposed for
formation and reconfiguration control of a team of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) …

Formation control is a cooperative control concept in which multiple autonomous underwater
mobile robots are deployed for a group motion and/or control mission. This paper presents a …

In this paper, a coordinated tracking strategy with swarm center identification, self-organized
aggregation, collision avoidance and distributed controller design for multiple unmanned …

This technical note presents a cyclic-small-gain approach to distributed output-feedback
control of nonlinear multi-agent systems. Through novel distributed observer and control law …

This paper addresses the formation motion control of heterogeneous multi-agent unmanned
systems via a distributed consensus approach. The considered heterogeneous system …

This paper presents a multifunctional control law for a group of mobile robots. The controller
concurrently integrates flocking, formation control, and path following, as basic components …

This article is concerned with both consensus and coordinated path-following control for
multiple nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots. In the design, the path-following control is …