ALOS-Based USV path-following control with obstacle avoidance strategy

Z Liu, S Song, S Yuan, Y Ma, Z Yao - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Path following and obstacle avoidances are used in heading control and path replanning for
unmanned surface vessels (USVs), which have attracted the interest of many researchers …

ESO-based path following control for underactuated vehicles with the safety prediction obstacle avoidance mechanism

G Zhang, C Zhang, X Zhang, Y Deng - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This note investigates the waypoints-based path following problem of underactuated surface
vehicles (USVs), considering that there exists the moving obstacle around the reference …

[PDF][PDF] Control of unmanned surface vehicle along the desired trajectory using improved line of sight and estimated sideslip angle

L Li, Z Pei, J Jin, Y Dai - Polish Maritime Research, 2021 - sciendo.com
In order to improve the accuracy and robustness of path following control for an Unmanned
Surface Vehicle (USV) suffering from unknown and complex disturbances, a variable speed …

Predictive path following based on adaptive line-of-sight for underactuated autonomous surface vessels

C Liu, RR Negenborn, X Chu, H Zheng - Journal of marine science and …, 2018 - Springer
Underactuated autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) have stringent requirements on
automatically tracking a predefined path. This paper proposes a model predictive control …

Underactuated USV path following mechanism based on the cascade method

M Lin, Z Zhang, Y Pang, H Lin, Q Ji - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The path following control under disturbance was studied for an underactuated unmanned
surface vehicle (USV) subject to the rudder angle and velocity constraints. For this reason, a …

Control algorithm for trajectory tracking of an underactuated USV under multiple constraints

H Wang, J Dong, Z Liu, L Yan… - … Problems in Engineering, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A trajectory tracking control method based on the cascade of optimal guidance and adaptive
control laws was proposed for trajectory tracking of an unmanned surface vehicle under …

Safety-Certificated Line-of-Sight Guidance of Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Straight-Line Following in a Constrained Water Region Subject to Ocean Currents

Z Peng, J Li, B Han, N Gu - Journal of Marine Science and Application, 2023 - Springer
The collision-free straight-line following of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) moving in a
constrained water region subject to stationary and moving obstacles is addressed in this …

A Novel Real-time Obstacle Avoidance Method in Guidance Layer for AUVs' Path Following

C Yuan, C Shuai, Y Fang, J Ma - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the real-time obstacle avoidance problem in 2D/3D path following
missions for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). To efficiently solve this problem, a …

An improved model predictive control for path-following of USV based on global course constraint and event-triggered mechanism

B Zhao, X Zhang, C Liang, X Han - Ieee Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we propose a solution to the Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV) path-following
problem by suggesting an improved model predictive control (MPC) based on global course …

Smooth Sliding Mode Control for Path Following of Underactuated Surface Vehicles Based on LOS Guidance

Y Wang, Y Qu, S Zhao, R Cajo, H Fu - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a solution to the problem of following a curved path for underactuated
unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with unknown sideslip angle and model uncertainties is …