With an increasing number of offshore operations taking place at sea, the occurrence of
dropped objects has become more widespread and frequent. These incidents can result in a …

Marine robot plays an important role in the marine research due to its good application
prospects. Path planning provides the necessary information for marine robot to accomplish …

Waves have an important influence on the motion performances of offshore crane vessels.
The floating crane vessel in waves gives rise to the motion of the lifted object which is …

Parametric resonance of offshore crane cable was predicted by using Mathieu equation to
provide structural safety prediction during subsea lowering operation. This paper studied the …

Featured Application This study is based on the successful salvage of the Korean “Sewol”
ferry in 2017. The approach delineated in the manuscript—the arrangement of two lifting …

This paper discusses the visual servo guided implementation of automatic docking task for
an over-actuated underwater vehicle. Firstly, an overall introduction about the over-actuated …

Aiming at depth control problem of underwater vehicle in vertical plane, the paper proposes
a joint steering strategy which assigns depth error and pitch error to bow and stern rudders …

Sloshing is a phenomenon where a partially filled tank is exerted into various environmental
sea conditions, such as wave and wind. Sloshing in a tank of liquefied natural gas carrier …

Fouling has always been a common issue for ships as fouling drastically increases the
surface roughness and ship resistance. The microfiber self-adhesive antifouling film is …

Aiming at designing cooperative autonomous surface vehicle (ASV), this paper proposed a
cooperative control system mainly based on embedded controllers onboard. First, the …