Huarong Zheng is a full researcher at Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, China. She has been working on autonomous maritime vehicles for more than ten years. Her research interests include ocean robotics, model predictive control, and distributed control and coordination with applications to waterborne networked systems.

Chenguang Liu is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Maritime Technology and Safety, Wuhan University of Technology, China. His research interests include ship intelligent navigation, motion planning and control, formation control, advanced perception, and model predictive control theories and applications.