PENG Zhou-Hua Associate professor at the Department of Marine Electrical Engineering, School of Marine Engineering, Dalian Maritime University. He received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Dalian Maritime University, China, in 2005, 2008 and 2011, respectively. His research interest covers cooperative control, adaptive control and formation control of marine vehicles. E-mail: zhouhuapeng@gmail.com WANG Dan Professor at the Department of Marine Electrical Engineering, School of Marine Engineering. He received the B.E. degree in industrial automation engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China in 1982, the M. E. degree in marine automation engineering from Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China in 1987, and the Ph. D. degree in mechanical and automation engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong,China in 2001. From 2001 to 2005, he was a research scientist with Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore. His research interest covers nonlinear control theory and applications, neural networks, adaptive control, robust control, fault detection and isolation, and power electronics with applications. Corresponding author of this paper. E-mail: dwangdl@gmail.com WANG Hao Ph.D. candidate at the School of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University. He received the B.E. degree from the School of Physics, Liaoning University, China in 2009, the M. E degree from the Information Science and Technology College, Maritime University, Dalian, China in 2011. His research interest covers on formation control of marine vehicles. E-mail: wanghao12160@163.com WANG Wei Ph.D. candidate at the School of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University. She received the B. E., and M. E. degrees from the Information Science and Technology College, Liaoning University of Technology, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Her research interest covers cooperative control of multiagent systems. E-mail: lgwangw@gmail.com