Advances in Line-of-Sight Guidance for Path Following of Autonomous Marine Vehicles: An Overview

Autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs), including autonomous surface and underwater vehicles, are versatile means to explore, exploit, monitor, and protect marine resources and environments. Motion control is a fundamental enabling technique for state-of-the-art AMV development. Especially, guidance is a critical component in AMV motion control. In recent years, line-of-sight (LOS) guidance, as an efficient guidance method, has attracted tremendous interest from both theoretical and practical perspectives. In this paper, an overview of recent advances in LOS guidance for AMV path following is provided. First, a control objective for the path following of an AMV with a kinematic model is specified. Next, major LOS…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 52071044, 51939001, 51979020, 51909021
• RG
  Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee

  Awards: 11202318, 11208517
• LR
  Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program

  Award: XLYC2007188
• FR
  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
• TY
  Thousand Young Talents Program of China

  Award: 36261402
• SF
  Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Dalian Province

  Award: 2018RJ08