Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Persistent Localization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles without Velocity Measurements.- Chapter 3 Joint Localization and Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with State Disturbances.- Chapter 4 Joint Localization and Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Model Uncertainty.- Chapter 5 Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with time Delay and Actuator Saturation.- Chapter 6 Finite-Time Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle without Velocity Measurements.- Chapter 7 Formation Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Communication Delay.

Jing Yan received the B.Eng. degree in Automation from Henan University, Kaifeng, China, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, in 2014. In 2014, he was Research Assistant with the Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China. From January 2016 to September 2016, he was Postdoc with University of North Texas, Denton, USA. From October 2016 to January 2017, he was Research Associate with University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA. Currently, he is Associate Professor with Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China. Meanwhile, he is also Associate Editor for IEEE Access. His research interests cover in underwater acoustic sensor networks, networked teleoperation systems, and cyber-physical systems. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in leading academic journals and conferences. He has also received numerous awards, including the Excellence Paper Award from the National Doctoral Academic Forum of System Control and Information Processing in 2012, the Outstanding Doctorate Dissertation of Hebei Province in 2015, the Excellence Paper Award from the National Doctoral Academic Forum of System Control and Information Processing in 2012, the Youth Talent Support Program of Hebei Province in 2019, the Outstanding Young Foundation of Hebei Province in 2020, and the Excellence Adviser from Oceanology International Underwater Robot Competition in 2017.
Xian Yang received the B.S. degree in Automation and the Ph.D. degree in the Control Theory and Control Engineering from Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, in 2010 and 2016, respectively. She was Academic Visitor of Imperial College London, UK, from June 2019 to June 2020. She is currently Associate Professor with Yanshan University. Her research interests include networked teleoperation systems, underwater autonomoussystems, and nonlinear