Traditional track-driven deep-sea nodule mining solutions significantly disrupt seabed ecosystems, making them unsuitable for commercial application. In contrast, ROV-like alternatives, such as the hovering mining vehicle, or HMV, offer substantial improvement in this regard and are deemed to be a viable way forward. This paper proposes an adaptive neural network fuzzy sliding mode controller architecture for the underwater tr...

This paper combines the piecewise Cubic Hermite (CH) interpolation algorithm and the weighted least square support vector machine (WLS-SVM) to improve identification accuracy for marine crafts built based on the characteristic model. The characteristic model is first used to describe the heading dynamics of marine crafts and is a superior model to the traditional response model in both accuracy and complexity. Especially in or...