Advances in line-of-sight guidance for path following of autonomous marine vehicles: An overview

N Gu, D Wang, Z Peng, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs), including autonomous surface and underwater
vehicles, are versatile means to explore, exploit, monitor, and protect marine resources and …

Cooperative USV–UAV marine search and rescue with visual navigation and reinforcement learning-based control

Y Wang, W Liu, J Liu, C Sun - ISA transactions, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates visual navigation and control of a cooperative unmanned surface
vehicle (USV)-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for marine search and rescue. First, a …

An adaptive error constraint line-of-sight guidance and finite-time backstepping control for unmanned surface vehicles

H Tong - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a finite-time path following control approach with an adaptive error
constraint line-of-sight guidance for marine unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). The …

Path-following and LiDAR-based obstacle avoidance via NMPC for an autonomous surface vehicle

A Gonzalez-Garcia, I Collado-Gonzalez… - Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a path-following and collision avoidance system for autonomous
surface vehicles based on nonlinear model predictive control. The proposed strategy is …

Adaptive dynamic programming and deep reinforcement learning for the control of an unmanned surface vehicle: Experimental results

A Gonzalez-Garcia, D Barragan-Alcantar… - Control Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a low-level controller for an unmanned surface vehicle based on
adaptive dynamic programming and deep reinforcement learning. This approach uses a …

Global fixed-time adaptive fuzzy path following control for unmanned surface vehicles subject to lumped uncertainties and actuator saturation

Y Fan, Y Shi, D Mu, J Liu, Z Li - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A global fixed-time control strategy is presented for addressing the path following problem of
underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with lumped uncertainties and actuator …

Super-twisting sliding mode control for the trajectory tracking of underactuated USVs with disturbances

W Liu, H Ye, X Yang - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
For an underactuated unmanned surface vehicle (USV), time-varying external disturbances
affect the accuracy of trajectory tracking. To ensure trajectory tracking accuracy, in this paper …

Trajectory tracking control for unmanned surface vessel with input saturation and disturbances via robust state error IDA-PBC approach

C Lv, H Yu, J Chen, N Zhao, J Chi - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel robust state error Interconnection and Damping assignment Passivity-based Control
(IDA-PBC) controller for Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) with input saturation and …

Improved adaptive fuzzy control for unmanned surface vehicles with uncertain dynamics using high-power functions

C Sun, J Liu, J Yu - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the adaptive fuzzy control problem for unmanned surface vehicles
with uncertain dynamics. The nonlinear controllers for both the forward speed and heading …

Roboat III: An autonomous surface vessel for urban transportation

W Wang, D Fernández‐Gutiérrez… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we present our novel autonomous surface vessel platform, a full‐scale Roboat
for urban transportation. This 4‐m‐long Roboat is designed with six seats and can carry a …