The hybrid path planning algorithm based on improved A* and artificial potential field for unmanned surface vehicle formations

H Sang, Y You, X Sun, Y Zhou, F Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
To effectively improve system autonomy, increase fault-tolerant resilience, solve low payload
capacity and short endurance time of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), there's a trend to …

Reinforcement learning-based optimal tracking control of an unknown unmanned surface vehicle

N Wang, Y Gao, H Zhao, CK Ahn - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel reinforcement learning-based optimal tracking control (RLOTC)
scheme is established for an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the presence of complex …

[HTML][HTML] A review on COLREGs-compliant navigation of autonomous surface vehicles: From traditional to learning-based approaches

L Hu, H Hu, W Naeem, Z Wang - Journal of Automation and Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
A growing interest in developing autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) has been witnessed
during the past two decades, including COLREGs-compliant navigation to ensure safe …

Autonomous pilot of unmanned surface vehicles: Bridging path planning and tracking

N Wang, Y Zhang, CK Ahn, Q Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous pilot is crucial in integrally promoting the autonomy of an unmanned surface
vehicle (USV). However, the integration mechanism of decision and control is still unclear …

Coordinated trajectory-tracking control of a marine aerial-surface heterogeneous system

N Wang, CK Ahn - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, for a marine aerial-surface heterogeneous (MASH) system composed by a
quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) with …

A dynamically hybrid path planning for unmanned surface vehicles based on non-uniform Theta* and improved dynamic windows approach

S Han, L Wang, Y Wang, H He - Ocean engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a dynamically hybrid path planning scheme incorporating the global
guidance, real-time motion planning and collision-free maneuvering for Unmanned Surface …

The development of rubber tapping machines in intelligent agriculture: A review

H Yang, Z Sun, J Liu, Z Zhang, X Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the past decade, intelligent technologies have advanced rapidly, particularly due to
improvements in automatic control, which have had a significant impact on forestry, as well …

Field evaluation of path-planning algorithms for autonomous mobile robot in smart farms

J Pak, J Kim, Y Park, HI Son - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path planning is crucial for several applications, including those in industrial facilities,
network traffic, computer games, and agriculture. Enabling automated path-planning …

On trajectory homotopy to explore and penetrate dynamically of multi-UAV

J Fu, G Sun, W Yao, L Wu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper examines a trajectory homotopy optimization framework for multiple unmanned
aerial vehicles (multi-UAV) to solve the problem of dynamic penetration mission planning …

A simultaneous planning and control method integrating APF and MPC to solve autonomous navigation for USVs in unknown environments

X Wang, J Liu, H Peng, X Qie, X Zhao, C Lu - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2022 - Springer
This paper is devoted to solving autonomous navigation for unmanned surface vessels
(USVs) in unknown environments. To overcome the deficiency of the “first planning then …