Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges

Z Liu, Y Zhang, X Yu, C Yuan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2016 - Elsevier
With growing worldwide interest in commercial, scientific, and military issues associated with
both oceans and shallow waters, there has been a corresponding growth in demand for the …

[HTML][HTML] Review of floating object manipulation by autonomous multi-vessel systems

Z Du, RR Negenborn, V Reppa - Annual Reviews in Control, 2023 - Elsevier
The regulatory endorsement of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the
support of pivotal ship** market players in recent years motivate the investigation of the …

Station-kee** control of an unmanned surface vehicle exposed to current and wind disturbances

EI Sarda, H Qu, IR Bertaska, KD von Ellenrieder - Ocean Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Field trials of a 4 m long, 180 kg, unmanned surface vehicle (USV) have been conducted to
evaluate the performance of station-kee** heading and position controllers in an outdoor …

Robot-assisted bridge inspection

RR Murphy, E Steimle, M Hall, M Lindemuth… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR®) deployed a
customized AEOS man-portable unmanned surface vehicle and two commercially available …

ASV station kee** under wind disturbances using neural network simulation error minimization model predictive control

J Chavez‐Galaviz, J Li, A Chaudhary… - Journal of Field …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Station kee** is an essential maneuver for autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), mainly
when used in confined spaces, to carry out surveys that require the ASV to keep its position …

Nonlinear station kee** control for underactuated unmanned surface vehicles to resist environmental disturbances

Y Qu, L Cai - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a station kee** control method for underactuated unmanned surface
vehicles (USVs) to resist environmental disturbances with unknown magnitude and …

Dynamic positioning for an underactuated marine vehicle using hybrid control

D Panagou, KJ Kyriakopoulos - International Journal of Control, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing interest in autonomous marine systems and related applications has
motivated, among others, the development of systems and algorithms for the dynamic …

State-dependent finite-time controller design and its application to positioning control task for underactuated unmanned surface vehicles

Q Yang, L Cai - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, an accurate state-depended finite-time positioning control framework is
proposed for underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Three control objectives …

Nonlinear positioning control for underactuated unmanned surface vehicles in the presence of environmental disturbances

Y Qu, L Cai - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a nonlinear positioning control method for underactuated marine
surface vehicles via the adaptive heading assignment to resist unknown environmental …

A restricted circle based position kee** strategy for the wave glider

P Wang, X Zhang, D Wang, X Guo, W Lu… - Applied Ocean ResearcH, 2020 - Elsevier
The wave glider is a class of wave-propelled, persistent, unmanned ocean surface vehicle.
Due to the characteristics of low speed and weak maneuvering, it is challenging to control …