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 …

Artificial intelligence algorithms in unmanned surface vessel task assignment and path planning: A survey

K Gao, M Gao, M Zhou, Z Ma - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the complex environment and variable demands, unmanned surface vessel (USV)
task assignment and path planning have received much attention from academia and …

A novel double layered hybrid multi-robot framework for guidance and navigation of unmanned surface vehicles in a practical maritime environment

Y Singh, M Bibuli, E Zereik, S Sharma, A Khan… - Journal of Marine …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Formation control and cooperative motion planning are two major research areas currently
being used in multi robot motion planning and coordination. The current study proposes a …

Distributed event-triggered affine formation control for multiple underactuated marine surface vehicles

Y Zheng, L Zhang, B Huang, Y Su - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This article focuses on the distributed event-triggered affine formation control problem for
multiple underactuated marine surface vehicles (UMSVs) considering affine transformation …

Global finite-time control for coordinated path following of multiple underactuated unmanned surface vehicles along one curve under directed topologies

M Li, C Guo, H Yu - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the problem of coordinated path following for underactuated
unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) based on distributed control with directed topologies …

Coordinated path following control for multi-unmanned surface vehicles with specified performance and periodic event-triggered mechanism

Z He, G Wang, Y Fan - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper addresses coordinated path following for underactuated multi-unmanned surface
vehicles (MUSVs) with specified performance (SP) under the lumped disturbances …

Distributed global output-feedback formation control without velocity measurement for multiple unmanned surface vehicles

L Zhang, Y Zheng, Z Huang, B Huang, Y Su - ISA transactions, 2024 - Elsevier
This article studies the distributed formation control problem for multiple unmanned surface
vehicles (USVs) considering uncertain coefficient matrixes, unmeasurable velocities, and …

Swarm velocity guidance based distributed finite-time coordinated path-following for uncertain under-actuated autonomous surface vehicles

X Liang, X Qu, N Wang, Y Li - ISA transactions, 2021 - Elsevier
This article mainly researches the problem of distributed finite-time coordinated path-
following for under-actuated autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) within a network swarm …

Formation control of multiple unmanned surface vehicles using the adaptive null-space-based behavioral method

J Fan, Y Liao, Y Li, Q Jiang, L Wang, W Jiang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an adaptive null-space-based behavioral (NSB) method to deal with the
problems of saturation planning and lack of adaptability when the traditional NSB method is …

A two layered optimal approach towards cooperative motion planning of unmanned surface vehicles in a constrained maritime environment

M Bibuli, Y Singh, S Sharma, R Sutton, D Hatton… - Ifac-Papersonline, 2018 - Elsevier
Efficient motion planning of multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in a dynamic
maritime environment is an important requirement for increasing mission efficiency and …