Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology can provide a safe and convenient transportation
solution for the public, but the complex and various environments in the real world make it …

Field trials of a 4 m long, 180 kg, unmanned surface vehicle (USV) have been conducted to
evaluate the performance of station-keeping heading and position controllers in an outdoor …

Experimental testing of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) has been performed to evaluate
the performance of two low-level controllers when displacement and drag properties are …

This paper presents a station keeping control method for underactuated unmanned surface
vehicles (USVs) to resist environmental disturbances with unknown magnitude and …

In this study, an accurate state-depended finite-time positioning control framework is
proposed for underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Three control objectives …

This article presents a nonlinear positioning control method for underactuated marine
surface vehicles via the adaptive heading assignment to resist unknown environmental …

In this paper, a method of incorporating multiobjective controller selection into a closed-loop
control system is presented and validated using a full-sized unmanned surface vehicle …

The ability of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to maintain a fixed orientation and position
for an extended period of time is essential for a variety of applications such as acoustic and …

An excellent navigation, guidance, and control (NGC) system had a high impact on trajectory
tracking and the following scenarios. Both scenarios will include the heading, tangent, and …

In this paper, a hierarchical control scheme for trajectory-tracking unmanned surface
vehicles (USVs) is proposed and tested. The proposed control scheme is capable of …