Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges

Z Liu, Y Zhang, X Yu, C Yuan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2016 - Elsevier
With growing worldwide interest in commercial, scientific, and military issues associated with
both oceans and shallow waters, there has been a corresponding growth in demand for the …

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for trajectory tracking and collision avoidance of underactuated vessels with disturbances

M Abdelaal, M Fränzle, A Hahn - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a combined Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) for position
and velocity tracking of underactuated surface vessels, and collision avoidance of static and …

Trajectory tracking nonlinear model predictive control for autonomous surface craft

BJ Guerreiro, C Silvestre, R Cunha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a solution to the problem of trajectory tracking control for autonomous
surface craft (ASC) in the presence of ocean currents. The proposed solution is rooted in …

Experimental investigation of practical autopilots for maritime autonomous surface ships in shallow water

C Chen, G Delefortrie, E Lataire - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
To evaluate the performance of autopilots in real scenarios for maritime autonomous surface
ships (MASS), this article investigates four autopilots via the experimental study instead of …

NMPC-based trajectory tracking and collision avoidance of unmanned surface vessels with rule-based colregs confinement

M Abdelaal, A Hahn - … on Systems, Process and Control (ICSPC …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) approach for critical
maneuvering of unmanned surface vessels (USV) in near-collision situation. The algorithm …

Real-sea validation of a model predictive controller's inherent robustness for medium-scale unmanned trimaran heading

J Wang, J Wang, X Liang, J Liu, S Cheng, H Yi - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of medium-to large-scale and high-performance unmanned surface
vehicles (USVs) is a burgeoning trend in intelligent marine systems. The heading controller …

Underactuated tracking control of underwater vehicles using control moment gyros

R Xu, G Tang, D Xie, D Huang… - International Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article studies the trajectory tracking control of underactuated underwater vehicles
using control moment gyros through a biologically inspired approach based on …

Nonlinear model predictive control for tracking of underactuated vessels under input constraints

M Abdelaal, M Franzle, A Hahn - 2015 IEEE European …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is presented for position and
velocity tracking of underactuated surface vessel with input constraints. A hree-degree-of …

Model Predictive Control with Block Matrix for Unmanned Surface Vehicles Trajectory Tracking

H Fu, W Yao, C Peng, Y Wang - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to work out the matter of long calculation time and poor real-time performance of
trajectory tracking controller designed by Model Predictive Control (MPC), a model …

Algorithms for planning and executing multi-roboat shapeshifting

RH Kelly - 2019 - dspace.mit.edu
With autonomous vehicle development increasing, urban planners and designers are
examining the impacts they will have on our everyday lives. As our technology becomes …