Collision prevention is critical for navigation safety at sea. At early ages, researchers aimed
at developing navigational assistance systems for enhancing situational awareness of …

Collision avoidance algorithms for autonomous ships are frequently proposed, but very few
studies consider the interaction and information exchange between ships, and if they do, this …

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 …

This paper presents a review on the development and application of model predictive
control (MPC) for autonomous intelligent mechatronic systems (AIMS). Starting from the …

Abstract Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) attract increasing attention in recent
years. Researchers aim at developing fully autonomous systems that replace the role of …

Distributed optimization consists of multiple computation nodes working together to minimize
a common objective function through local computation iterations and network-constrained …

This work presents a method for multi-robot coordination based on a novel distributed
nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) formulation for trajectory optimization and its …

A growing interest in developing autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) has been witnessed
during the past two decades, including COLREGs-compliant navigation to ensure safe …

Distributed optimization provides a framework for deriving distributed algorithms for a variety
of multi-robot problems. This tutorial constitutes the first part of a two-part series on …

Collision risk early warning is critical to sailing safety in vessel encounter situations because
it provides ship officers with sufficient time to react to emergencies and take evasive actions …