An overview of recent advances in coordinated control of multiple autonomous surface vehicles

Z Peng, J Wang, D Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A survey of maritime unmanned search system: Theory, applications and future directions

J Li, G Zhang, C Jiang, W Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The rising frequency of ocean activities, such as ocean transportation and marine resources
development, inevitably leads to a higher incidence of sudden accidents at sea. Maritime …

A novel cooperative design for USV–UAV systems: 3-D mapping guidance and adaptive fuzzy control

J Li, G Zhang, Q Shan, W Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates a novel cooperative design for path following of the mixed-order
underactuated surface vehicle (USV) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the presence of …

USV formation and path-following control via deep reinforcement learning with random braking

Y Zhao, Y Ma, S Hu - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the problem of path following for underactuated unmanned surface
vessels (USVs) formation via a modified deep reinforcement learning with random braking …

Fault detection filter and controller co-design for unmanned surface vehicles under DoS attacks

Y Ma, Z Nie, S Hu, Z Li, R Malekian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the co-design problem of a fault detection filter and controller for a
networked-based unmanned surface vehicle (USV) system subject to communication …

Path following optimization for an underactuated USV using smoothly-convergent deep reinforcement learning

Y Zhao, X Qi, Y Ma, Z Li, R Malekian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to solve the path following problem for an underactuated unmanned-
surface-vessel (USV) based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL). A smoothly-convergent …

Recent progress of air/water cross-boundary communications for underwater sensor networks: A review

H Luo, J Wang, F Bu, R Ruby, K Wu… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next-generation of wireless network 6G is envisioned to achieve seamless global full
coverage, and provide ultra-high-speed and extreme low delay network to connect the …

Cooperative path following control of USV-UAVs considering low design complexity and command transmission requirements

J Li, G Zhang, W Zhang, Q Shan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates a robust cooperative path following control algorithm for an
unmanned surface vessel and unmanned aerial vehicles (USV-UAVs) that releases the …

Cooperative path planning for heterogeneous unmanned vehicles in a search-and-track mission aiming at an underwater target

Y Wu, KH Low, C Lv - IEEE transactions on vehicular …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is an effective way to execute a complicated mission by cooperating unmanned vehicles.
This paper focuses on a search-and-track (SAT) mission for an underwater target, and the …

Adaptive neural output feedback control for MSVs with predefined performance

G Zhu, Y Ma, Z Li, R Malekian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the problem of trajectory tracking control for marine surface
vehicles (MSVs), which are subject to dynamic uncertainties, external disturbances and …