The rising frequency of ocean activities, such as ocean transportation and marine resources
development, inevitably leads to a higher incidence of sudden accidents at sea. Maritime …

Disaster management is a critical area that requires efficient methods and techniques to
address various challenges. This comprehensive assessment offers an in-depth overview of …

Search and rescue (SAR) operations can take significant advantage from supporting
autonomous or teleoperated robots and multi-robot systems. These can aid in mapping and …

This paper investigates visual navigation and control of a cooperative unmanned surface
vehicle (USV)-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for marine search and rescue. First, a …

The number of casualties in the maritime sector is increasing consistently. To reduce the
scope of search area extensions in the event of a maritime accident, maritime authorities …

The essence of the path planning problems is multi-modality constraint. However, most of
the current literature has not mentioned this issue. This paper introduces the research …

Recently, the use of collaborative robots has started to emerge at construction sites. Such
incorporation into these human-dominated environments can raise safety concerns as most …

Purpose Attenuation correction and scatter compensation (AC/SC) are two main steps
toward quantitative PET imaging, which remain challenging in PET-only and PET/MRI …

This article addresses a guidance and control strategy for an unmanned surface vehicle
subject to uncertainties. The controller uses a dynamic three-degree-of-freedom model with …

Within the next several years, there will be a high level of autonomous technology that will
be available for widespread use, which will reduce labor costs, increase safety, save energy …