This paper proposes an adaptive sliding mode backstepping control algorithm for the tracking problem of uncertain ship model based on neural networks. The adaptive sliding mode backstepping controller ...

Dave Harvey with the United States Submarine Veterans in Charleston, South Carolina brought a model of the USS Thresher to ...

When Doug Unsold’s boat comes in, he builds it himself. The 67-year-old retired Waterford resident builds scale models of ...

A new system identification scheme based on model reference and random forest (RM-RF), was used to model ship maneuvering. First, the scheme establishes the relationship between a ship and the RM ...