[HTML][HTML] Collaborative unmanned vehicles for inspection, maintenance, and repairs of offshore wind turbines

MH Nordin, S Sharma, A Khan, M Gianni, S Rajendran… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Operations and maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) are challenging, with
manual operators constantly exposed to hazardous environments. Due to the high task …

A survey on UAV-aided maritime communications: Deployment considerations, applications, and future challenges

N Nomikos, PK Gkonis, PS Bithas… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maritime activities represent a major domain of economic growth with several emerging
maritime Internet of Things use cases, such as smart ports, autonomous navigation, and …

Digital twin-driven industrialization development of underwater gliders

M Yang, Y Wang, C Wang, Y Liang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater glider (UG) is the only marine equipment in the field of ocean observation that
can realize unmanned autonomous, all-weather and wide-area continuous 3-D observation …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental verification of seafloor crustal deformation observations by UAV-based GNSS-A

Y Yokota, M Kaneda, T Hashimoto, S Yamaura… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Global Navigation Satellite System-Acoustic ranging combination technique
(GNSS-A) is the only geodetic observation method that can precisely detect absolute …

[HTML][HTML] Direction of Arrival Estimation of Acoustic Sources with Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Swarm via Matrix Completion

L Xu, J Huang, H Zhang, B Liao - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the rapid development of vibration and noise reduction technologies, underwater target
detection is facing great challenges. Particularly, the task of high-resolution direction of …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive Ocean Information-Enabled AUV Motion Planning Based on Reinforcement Learning

Y Li, X He, Z Lu, P Jing, Y Su - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Motion planning based on the reinforcement learning algorithms of the autonomous
underwater vehicle (AUV) has shown great potential. Motion planning algorithms are …

[HTML][HTML] Simulative Evaluation of the Underwater Geodetic Network Configuration on Kinematic Positioning Performance

M Li, Y Liu, Y Liu, G Chen, Q Tang, Y Han, Y Wen - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The construction of underwater geodetic networks (UGN) is crucial in marine geodesy. To
provide high-precision kinematic positioning for underwater submersibles, an underwater …

[PDF][PDF] Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repairs of Offshore Wind Turbines. Drones 2022, 6, 137

MH Nordin, S Sharma, A Khan, M Gianni, S Rajendran… - 2022 - academia.edu
Operations and maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) are challenging, with
manual operators constantly exposed to hazardous environments. Due to the high task …

UAV-based Mobile Acoustic Sink for Dynamic Communication Coverage via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

M Shao, X Li, P Dong, J Liu, H Luo - Proceedings of the ACM Turing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered as promising devices for intelligent
mission execution in the smart ocean due to their flexibility, mobility, and ability to deploy as …

Cooperative and Dynamic UAV-Based Mobile Sink Deployment using Deep Reinforcement Learning

M Shao, H Luo, R Ruby, P Dong… - … Conference on Advanced …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In maritime emergency response operations, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can
perform underwater search and transmit emergency data in real-time. To collect the sensed …