Cooperative multi-task traversing with complex marine environment for multiple unmanned surface vehicles inspired by membrane computing

X Jin, G Zhang, M Yang, X Peng, B Shi - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper deals with cooperative multi-task traversing scheme for multiple unmanned
surface vehicles (USVs) under complex marine environments. Due to the dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple task assignment and path planning of a multiple unmanned surface vehicles system based on improved self-organizing mapping and improved …

G Xia, X Sun, X Xia - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper addresses multiple task assignment and path-planning problems for a multiple
unmanned surface vehicle (USVs) system. Since it is difficult to solve multi-task allocation …

Multi-type task allocation for multiple heterogeneous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) based on the self-organizing map

G Tan, J Zhuang, J Zou, L Wan - Applied Ocean Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The allocation of multi-type tasks for heterogeneous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is
the main focus of this paper. In order to consider the heterogeneity of USVs in the process of …

A workload balanced algorithm for task assignment and path planning of inhomogeneous autonomous underwater vehicle system

M Chen, D Zhu - IEEE transactions on cognitive and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Task assignment is an important research topic in multiple autonomous underwater vehicle
(AUV) cooperative working system. However, many studies concentrate on minimizing total …

Cooperative collision avoidance for unmanned surface vehicles based on improved genetic algorithm

H Wang, Z Fu, J Zhou, M Fu, L Ruan - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a method based on the improved genetic algorithm for cooperative
collision avoidance by multiple unmanned surface vehicles (hereinafter referred to as …

Efficient multi-task allocation and path planning for unmanned surface vehicle in support of ocean operations

Y Liu, R Bucknall - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Presently, there is an increasing interest in the deployment of unmanned surface vehicles
(USVs) to support complex ocean operations. In order to carry out these missions in a more …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperative path planning for air–sea heterogeneous unmanned vehicles using search-and-tracking mission

C Ke, H Chen - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The cooperative path planning problem for air–sea heterogeneous unmanned vehicles
using search-and-tracking mission is studied in this paper. Due to the limitations of single …

Target-bundled genetic algorithm for multi-unmanned aerial vehicle cooperative task assignment considering precedence constraints

G Xu, T Long, Z Wang, L Liu - Proceedings of the Institution …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a modified genetic algorithm using target-bundle-based encoding and
tailored genetic operators to effectively tackle cooperative multiple task assignment …

A task assignment strategy for multi-AUV collaborative hunting problem

Z Zhou, G Shen, W Niu, B He… - OCEANS 2022, Hampton …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a typical problem in the research of underwater multi-agent cooperative technology, multi-
AUV cooperative hunting is widely used in the military and other fields. In this paper, a …

A traversal multi-target path planning method for multi-unmanned surface vessels in space-varying ocean current

J Yu, Z Chen, Z Zhao, P Yao, J Xu - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-target traversal is an important aspect of research on multiple unmanned-surface-
vehicle (USV) cooperation in the space-varying ocean current environment. Here, we …