Follow-the-Leader Guidance, Navigation, and Control of Surface Vessels: Design and Experiments

Line-of-sight path-following control utilizing an extended Kalman filter for estimation of speed and course over ground from GNSS positions

(2022) Thor I. Fossen   JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Development and assessment of CFD methods to calculate propeller and hull impact on the rudder inflow for a twin-screw ship

(2022) Andrea Franceschi et al.   APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH

Z-Drive Escort Tug manoeuvrability model and simulation, Part II: A full-scale validation

(2022) Benedetto Piaggio et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Assessment of the Manoeuvrability Characteristics of a Twin Shaft Naval Vessel Using an Open-Source CFD Code

(2021) Andrea Franceschi et al.   Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Numerical analysis of escort tug manoeuvrability characteristics

(2020) Benedetto Piaggio et al.   APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH

Numerical analysis of escort tug manoeuvrability characteristics – Part II: The skeg effect

(2020) Benedetto Piaggio et al.   APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH

Identifying research directions of a remotely-controlled merchant ship by revisiting her system-theoretic safety control structure

(2020) Krzysztof Wróbel et al.   SAFETY SCIENCE

Investigation of the manoeuvrability characteristics of a Gate Rudder system using numerical, experimental, and full-scale techniques

(2020) Alessandro Carchen et al.   APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH

AIS data-driven approach to estimate navigable capacity of busy waterways focusing on ships entering and leaving port

(2020) Cong Liu et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Model predictive maneuvering control and energy management for all-electric autonomous ships

(2019) Ali Haseltalab et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

AN ALL-ROUND DESIGN-TO-SIMULATION APPROACH OF A NEW Z-DRIVE ESCORT TUG CLASS

(2019) Massimo Figari et al.   JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

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

(2019) Linying Chen et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

Z-Drive Escort Tug manoeuvrability model and simulation

(2019) Benedetto Piaggio et al.   OCEAN ENGINEERING

The use of computational fluid dynamic technique in ship control design

(2019) M. Martelli et al.   Ships and Offshore Structures

Adaptive Leader–Follower Formation Control of Underactuated Surface Vessels Under Asymmetric Range and Bearing Constraints

(2018) Jawhar Ghommam et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY

Distributed model predictive control for vessel train formations of cooperative multi-vessel systems

(2018) Linying Chen et al.   TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

A new formation control of multiple underactuated surface vessels

(2017) Wenjing Xie et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL

Guidance of Unmanned Surface Vehicles: Experiments in Vehicle Following

(2012) Marco Bibuli et al.   IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE

Path-following algorithms and experiments for an unmanned surface vehicle

(2009) Marco Bibuli et al.   Journal of Field Robotics

Straight-Line Target Tracking for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

(2009) Morten Breivik et al.   MODELING IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL

Basic navigation, guidance and control of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle

(2008) Massimo Caccia et al.   AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS