Review of floating object manipulation by autonomous multi-vessel systems

COLREGS-Compliant collision avoidance for physically coupled multi-vessel systems with distributed MPC

(2022) Zhe Du et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Multi-Objective Cooperative Control for a Ship-Towing System in Congested Water Traffic Environments

(2022) Zhe Du et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

An optimization model of tugboat operation for conveying a large surface vessel

(2021) Seung-Min Lee et al.   Journal of Computational Design and Engineering

Cooperative Maneuvering Mathematical Modeling for Multi-Tugs Towing a Ship in the Port Environment

(2021) Gongxing Wu et al.   Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

An intelligent course keeping active disturbance rejection controller based on double deep Q‐network for towing system of unpowered cylindrical drilling platform

(2021) Yuemin Zheng et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL

Dynamics and control of a two-ship ensemble connected by a massless towline

(2021) Mohamad M. Ismail et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Cooperative Multi-Agent Control for Autonomous Ship Towing Under Environmental Disturbances

(2021) Zhe Du et al.   IEEE-CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

Experimental investigation on a towing assessment for a floating desalination plant for Egypt

(2021) Islam Amin et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Aerial Load Transportation with Multiple Quadrotors Based on a Kinematic Controller and a Neural SMC Dynamic Compensation

(2020) Francisco Rossomando et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS

Stabilizing Control of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle Pushing a Floating Load

(2020) Rafael Vida Castro Rosario et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS

USV based automatic deployment of booms along quayside mooring ships: Scaled experiments and simulations

(2020) Juan F. Jimenez et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

An Overview of Recent Advances in Coordinated Control of Multiple Autonomous Surface Vehicles

(2020) Zhouhua Peng et al.   IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Path following control for towing system of cylindrical drilling platform in presence of disturbances and uncertainties

(2019) Jin Tao et al.   ISA TRANSACTIONS

Automatic load maneuvering and hold-back with multiple coordinated DP vessels

(2019) André S.S. Ianagui et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Numerical analysis of offshore integrated meteorological mast for wind farms during wet towing transportation

(2019) Puyang Zhang et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Distributed Model Predictive Control for cooperative floating object transport with multi-vessel systems

(2019) Linying Chen et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

An efficient neural-network based approach to automatic ship docking

(2019) Yonghui Shuai et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

A survey of formation control and motion planning of multiple unmanned vehicles

(2018) Yuanchang Liu et al.   ROBOTICA

Design and Implementation of Cooperative Turning Control for the Towing System of Unpowered Facilities

(2018) Li Yun et al.   IEEE Access

Cooperative adaptive guidance and control paradigm for marine robots in an emergency ship towing scenario

(2016) G. Bruzzone et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADAPTIVE CONTROL AND SIGNAL PROCESSING

Robust dynamic positioning of surface vessels via multiple unidirectional tugboats

(2016) Baris Bidikli et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Automated Self-Assembly of Large Maritime Structures by a Team of Robotic Boats

(2015) James Paulos et al.   IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Preparing the automatic spill recovery by two unmanned boats towing a boom: Development with scale experiments

(2015) Jose M. Giron-Sierra et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Leader–follower formation control of underactuated autonomous marine surface vehicles with limited torque

(2015) Khoshnam Shojaei   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Model-predictive asset guarding by team of autonomous surface vehicles in environment with civilian boats

(2014) Eric Raboin et al.   AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

Control allocation—A survey

(2013) Tor A. Johansen et al.   AUTOMATICA

Automatic ship berthing using artificial neural network trained by consistent teaching data using nonlinear programming method

(2013) Yaseen Adnan Ahmed et al.   ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

An efficient neural network approach to tracking control of an autonomous surface vehicle with unknown dynamics

(2012) Chang-Zhong Pan et al.   EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS

Adaptive Dynamic Surface Control for Formations of Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Uncertain Dynamics

(2012) Zhouhua Peng et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY

Cooperative box-pushing with multiple autonomous robotic fish in underwater environment

(2011) Y. Hu et al.   IET Control Theory and Applications

Development of constrained control allocation for ship berthing by using autonomous tugboats

(2011) Phuoc Van Bui et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS

A ship berthing system design with four tug boats

(2011) Van Phuoc Bui et al.   Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology

NNFFC-adaptive output feedback trajectory tracking control for a surface ship at high speed

(2011) Li-Jun Zhang et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

RESEARCH ON WORK METHODS FOR TUGS IN PORTS

(2011) Vytautas Paulauskas et al.   Transport

Cooperative caging and transport using autonomous aquatic surface vehicles

(2011) Filippo Arrichiello et al.   Intelligent Service Robotics

Comprehensive framework for tracking control and thrust allocation for a highly overactuated autonomous surface vessel

(2010) Matthew G. Feemster et al.   Journal of Field Robotics

Point-to-point navigation of underactuated ships

(2008) Ji-Hong Li et al.   AUTOMATICA

Structural reliability-based control of moored interconnected structures

(2006) Per Ivar Barth Berntsen et al.   CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE