Guidance and control methodologies for marine vehicles: A survey

HR Karimi, Y Lu - Control Engineering Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
Offshore mechatronics systems engineering has recently received high attentions in various
sectors such as energy, transportation, etc. Specifically, offshore robotic vehicles have …

Guidance and control based on adaptive sliding mode strategy for a USV subject to uncertainties

A Gonzalez-Garcia, H Castañeda - IEEE Journal of Oceanic …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses a guidance and control strategy for an unmanned surface vehicle
subject to uncertainties. The controller uses a dynamic three-degree-of-freedom model with …

Minimum-learning-parameter-based adaptive finite-time trajectory tracking event-triggered control for underactuated surface vessels with parametric uncertainties

J Qin, J Du - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
For the problem of trajectory tracking control of underactuated surface vessels (USVs)
affected by input saturation, parametric uncertainties, time-varying marine environmental …

Finite-time PLOS-based integral sliding-mode adaptive neural path following for unmanned surface vessels with unknown dynamics and disturbances

Y Yu, C Guo, H Yu - IEEE transactions on automation science …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned surface vessels (USVs) are supposed to be able to adapt unstructured
environments by means of multi-sensor active perception without any human interference …

Fixed-time neural network trajectory tracking control for underactuated surface vessels

B Zhou, B Huang, Y Su, YX Zheng, S Zheng - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a robust fixed-time trajectory tracking controller for underactuated
surface vessels (USVs) suffering from unmodeled dynamics and external disturbances …

Adaptive output-feedback control with prescribed performance for trajectory tracking of underactuated surface vessels

Z Jia, Z Hu, W Zhang - ISA transactions, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address the problem of trajectory tracking control of underactuated surface
vessels in a quantitative method with only position and attitude available. Combined with …

Sliding mode tracking control of autonomous underwater vehicles with the effect of quantization

Y Yan, S Yu - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper develops a trajectory tracking control law for autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUVs) with the effect of states and control input quantization. A sliding mode control (SMC) …

Soft Actor–Critic based active disturbance rejection path following control for unmanned surface vessel under wind and wave disturbances

Y Zheng, J Tao, Q Sun, H Sun, Z Chen, M Sun, G Xie - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The research of unmanned surface vessel (USV) path tracking has always been of great
interest in maneuvering control. In the course of navigation, a USV will inevitably be affected …

Finite-time control for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle based on adaptive sliding mode strategy

J Rodriguez, H Castañeda, A Gonzalez-Garcia… - Ocean engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The proper control of the maximum convergence time toward a desired motion or trajectory
is highly recommended for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) in the case of autonomous …

Line-of-sight-based global finite-time stable path following control of unmanned surface vehicles with actuator saturation

M Li, C Guo, H Yu, Y Yuan - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the path following problem of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with
unknown velocities, model uncertainties, and actuator saturation. To steer a USV rapidly and …