Design and experimental testing of a free-running ship motion control platform

J Zheng, F Meng, Y Li - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, ship motion control has been used in unmanned merchant ships. It is a key
issue in the sailing performance and navigation cost of unmanned vessels. The merchant …

State-of-the-art research on motion control of maritime autonomous surface ships

L Wang, Q Wu, J Liu, S Li, RR Negenborn - Journal of Marine Science …, 2019 - mdpi.com
At present, with the development of waterborne transport vehicles, research on ship faces a
new round of challenges in terms of intelligence and autonomy. The concept of maritime …

Design and implementation of a testing platform for ship control: A case study on the optimal switching controller for ship motion

L Wang, S Li, J Liu, Y Hu, Q Wu - Advances in Engineering Software, 2023 - Elsevier
Fully autonomous navigation is the highest level of ship autonomy, which has high
requirements for the adaptability of the ship control system. Taking navigation with large …

Trajectory tracking of under-actuated ships based on optimal sliding mode control with state observer

Z Li, R Bu - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
An optimal sliding mode control (SMC) with state observer is presented for trajectory tracking
of under-actuated ships with the model uncertainties, environmental disturbances, input …

Towards the testing and validation of autonomous ships: Design of a variable stability ship control system

S Li, Z Xu, J Liu, X Hu - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs) have received increased attention in both
academic research and industrial applications in the global shipping and shipbuilding …

Model analysis and modified control method of ship-mounted Stewart platforms for wave compensation

Y Cai, S Zheng, W Liu, Z Qu, J Han - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offshore installations eg marine transportation, oil platforms, etc. are strongly depended on
sea conditions. To increase workable time of carrying out these operations, a Stewart …

[PDF][PDF] Design of variable stability ship control system for ship intelligent navigation test

J LIU, L XIE, S LI, F YANG - Chinese Journal of Ship Research, 2023 - zgjcyj.xml-journal.net
[Objectives] The navigation control system is the brain and center of an intelligent ship, and
the safety and economy of the ship's navigation are directly determined by its control …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven model identification and predictive control for path-following of underactuated ships with unknown dynamics

L Wang, S Li, J Liu, Q Wu - International Journal of Naval Architecture and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the trends towards autonomous shipping, advanced ship motion control methods have
received increased attention in recent years. The validity of ship models is crucial in …

An AUV for ocean exploring and its motion control system architecture

L Zhang, D Jiang, J Zhao, S Ma - The open mechanical …, 2013 - benthamopen.com
With the development of exploring and utilizing ocean source, Autonomous Underwater
Vehicle (AUV) which could finish autonomous mission process is paid more and more …

Sliding mode control strategy of 3-UPS/S shipborne stable platform with LSTM neural network prediction

W Tian, X Zhang, D Lv, L Wang, Q Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to isolate the influence of wind and waves on shipborne equipment, the shipborne
stable platform has been widely used to compensate ship orientation fluctuation and ensure …