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 …

Disturbance observers and extended state observers for marine vehicles: A survey

N Gu, D Wang, Z Peng, J Wang, QL Han - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
The operation performance of marine vehicles (MVs) is significantly vulnerable to external
disturbances induced by wind, waves, and ocean currents in complex marine environments …

Adaptive event-based tracking control of unmanned marine vehicle systems with DoS attack

Z Ye, D Zhang, ZG Wu - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
The tracking control problem of a network-based unmanned marine vehicle (UMV) system is
investigated in this paper. The whole system consist of an UMV, a communication network …

Distributed adaptive fixed-time formation control for UAV-USV heterogeneous multi-agent systems

H Liu, P Weng, X Tian, Q Mai - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates formation trajectory tracking control for heterogeneous multi-agent
systems with external disturbances, model uncertainties and input saturation. The system …

Output-feedback flocking control of multiple autonomous surface vehicles based on data-driven adaptive extended state observers

Z Peng, L Liu, J Wang - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses an output-feedback flocking control problem for a swarm of
autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) to follow a leading ASV guided via a parameterized …

Extended-state-observer-based distributed model predictive formation control of under-actuated unmanned surface vehicles with collision avoidance

G Lv, Z Peng, H Wang, L Liu, D Wang, T Li - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, distributed formation tracking control with collision avoidance is addressed for
a group of under-actuated unmanned surface vehicles subject to physical constraints and …

Path-guided time-varying formation control with collision avoidance and connectivity preservation of under-actuated autonomous surface vehicles subject to unknown …

Z Peng, N Gu, Y Zhang, Y Liu, D Wang, L Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the distributed time-varying formation control for a swarm of under-
actuated autonomous surface vehicles subject to unknown input gains, in addition to model …

Event-triggered cooperative path following of autonomous surface vehicles over wireless network with experiment results

M Lv, Z Peng, D Wang, QL Han - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses cooperative path-following problem of autonomous surface vehicles
(ASVs) over a wireless network with constrained resources. A network-based resource …

Safety-critical containment maneuvering of underactuated autonomous surface vehicles based on neurodynamic optimization with control barrier functions

N Gu, D Wang, Z Peng, J Wang - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the safety-critical containment maneuvering of multiple underactuated
autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) in the presence of multiple stationary/moving …

Event-triggered extended state observers design for dynamic positioning vessels subject to unknown sea loads

L Liu, W Zhang, D Wang, Z Peng - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a resource-aware state and uncertainty estimation method for dynamic
positioning vessels subject to uncertain kinetics and unknown sea loads induced by wind …