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

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 environments. For complex missions, there are increasing needs for deploying a fleet of ASVs instead of a single one to complete difficult tasks. Cooperative operations with a fleet of ASVs offer great advantages with enhanced capability and efficacy. Despite various application potentials, coordinated motion control of ASVs pose great challenges due to the multiplicity of ASVs, complexity of intravehicle interactions and fleet formation with collision avoidance requirements, and scarcity of communication bandwidths in sea environments.…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 61673081, 51939001, 51979020, 61673330
• FR
  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

  Awards: 3132019319, 3132020101