Contents I. Introduction
With the distinct benefits of intelligence, flexibility, and safety, autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) have garnered widely attention, especially in military operations [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. By integrating advanced control, sensing, communication, or weapon systems, ASVs have gradually been used in diverse applications, ranging from surveillance and detection missions to adversarial and protection missions [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]. To handle these complex maritime missions, the cooperative control of a group of networked ASVs is extensively investigated, and various scenarios are considered, including cooperative trajectory tracking [12], [13], [14], cooperative path maneuvering [15], [16], [17], [18], cooperative target tracking [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], and cooperative target encircling [24], [25], [26], [27].
