Xiaofei WANG was born in Hebei province in 1978. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wuhan University of Technology in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). His research interests are ship control, nonlinear control, and predictive control. E-mail: wxfwind@163.com. Zaojian ZOU was born in Jiangxi province in 1956. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wuhan University of Technology in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Hamburg University, Germany in 1994. He is a professor of SJTU. His research interests are ship maneuvering and control. E-mail: zjzou@sjtu.edu.cn. Tieshan LI was born in Liaoning province in 1968. He is a postdoctoral fellow in SJTU. His research interests are adaptive control, robust control, and vehicle application engineering. E-mail: tieshanli@126.com. Weilin LUO was born in Fujian province in 1973. He received his Dr.-Ing. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009. His research interests are system identification, nonlinear control, and support vector machine. E-mail: wlhio@fzu.edu.cn.