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The purpose of this study is to provide a better and safer solution for the symmetry problem of unmanned surface vessels during automatic berthing in coastal waters. In automatic berthing, the symmetry problem refers to whether the USVs can maintain a stable state during motion and positioning, including dynamic symmetry and environmental symmetry. A finite-time controller based on a global nonsingular terminal sliding mode is designed to improve response speed and state consistency. Dynamic uncertainty and disturbance are considered in the design process, which can optimize the control law and effectively ensure the symmetry of the vessel in different states. Then, an event-triggering mechanism based on a dynamic threshold is adopted. In practice, there is excessive operation of the actuator. This mechanism ensures that the actuator is triggered only when the threshold is reached. USVs can adaptively adjust control strategies based on the real-time status, thereby improving symmetry during berthing. In simulation analysis, a pod-driven unmanned surface vessel with good maneuverability is taken as the research object. The results indicate that this control strategy can ensure rapid and consistent response of the vessel when subjected to external disturbances, which helps to maintain the symmetry of the automatic berthing motion under different conditions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym16121575","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,25]],"date-time":"2024-11-25T08:38:24Z","timestamp":1732523904000},"page":"1575","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Finite-Time Control for Automatic Berthing of Pod-Driven Unmanned Surface Vessel with an Event-Triggering Mechanism"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3241-1926","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zaiji","family":"Piao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Software, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian 116044, China"}]},{"given":"Shuang","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Software, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian 116044, China"}]},{"given":"Yiling","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Intelligence and Electronic Engineering, Dalian Neusoft University of Information, Dalian 116023, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3158-4956","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Moran","family":"Ju","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5152","DOI":"10.1109\/TII.2020.3033794","article-title":"Extreme learning-based monocular visual servo of an unmanned surface vessel","volume":"17","author":"Wang","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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