Ge Guo received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a professor with Northeastern University. He has published over 100 journal papers within his areas of interest, which include intelligent transportation systems and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Guo is the managing editor of the International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications and an associate editor of several other journals like IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Information Sciences, the ACTA Automatica Sinica, and the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. His research interests include intelligent transportation systems and cyber-physical systems

Zhenyu Gao received the B.S. degree from Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, in 2019. He is currently a lecturer with the School of Control Engineering, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, China. His current research interests include optimal control, formation control of autonomous vessels, and intelligent transportation systems.

Pengfei Zhang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Dalian Maritime University, in 2012 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a lecturer with Huzhou University, Huzhou, China. His current research interests include stabilization/tracking control of under-actuated surface/underwater vessels, nonlinear systems, and disturbance observers.

Addresses autonomous marine vessel systems in theory

Studies AMV system, including tracking, stabilization, and cooperative control

Provides in-depth treatments for some practical issues such as unknown disturbance and, state constraint