An overview of recent advances in coordinated control of multiple autonomous surface vehicles

Z Peng, J Wang, D Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) are marine vessels capable of performing various
marine operations without a crew in a variety of cluttered and hostile water/ocean …

Coordinated target tracking by multiple unmanned surface vehicles with communication delays based on a distributed event-triggered extended state observer

S Gao, Z Peng, L Liu, H Wang, D Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with a coordinated target tracking problem for a network of
unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) subject to communication delays and constrained …

[HTML][HTML] Formation control of a multi-unmanned surface vessel system: A bibliometric analysis

J Xue, Y Song, H Hu - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study provides an overview of the literature on multi-unmanned surface vessel (multi-
USV) systems, addressing the increasing attention on formation control of USVs due to their …

Obstacle tracking for unmanned surface vessels using 3-D point cloud

J Muhovič, B Bovcon, M Kristan… - IEEE Journal of Oceanic …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a method for detecting and tracking waterborne obstacles from an
unmanned surface vehicle (USV) for the purpose of short-term obstacle avoidance. A stereo …

Cooperative target substitution tracking control of multiple unmanned surface vehicles with substitute USVs

Y Zhu, J Bai, G Guo - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the cooperative target substitution tracking problem of multiple unmanned
surface vehicles (multi-USVs) with substitute members is studied. The damage and …

Field experiment of autonomous ship navigation in canal and surrounding nearshore environments

J Kim, C Lee, D Chung, Y Cho, J Kim… - Journal of Field …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we present the development of autonomous navigation capabilities for small
cruise boats, and their verification by field experiments in a canal and its surrounding waters …

Solving heterogeneous USV scheduling problems by problem-specific knowledge based meta-heuristics with Q-learning

Z Ma, K Gao, H Yu, N Wu - Mathematics, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study focuses on the scheduling problem of heterogeneous unmanned surface vehicles
(USVs) with obstacle avoidance pretreatment. The goal is to minimize the overall maximum …

Adaptive LOS path following for a podded propulsion unmanned surface vehicle with uncertainty of model and actuator saturation

D Mu, G Wang, Y Fan, X Sun, B Qiu - Applied sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper addresses three related issues concerning the path following control of a podded
propulsion unmanned surface vehicle (USV), namely modeling, guidance and control. The …

A new approach of obstacle fusion detection for unmanned surface vehicle using Dempster-Shafer evidence theory

D Liu, J Zhang, J Jin, Y Dai, L Li - Applied Ocean Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Aiming at the demand of obstacle collision avoidance for unmanned surface vehicle (USV)
at near-field, a new approach of obstacle fusion detection for USV using Demperster-Shafer …

[HTML][HTML] 无人水面艇感知技术发展综述

朱健楠, 虞梦苓, 杨益新 - 哈尔滨工程大学学报, 2020 - html.rhhz.net
无人水面艇因其机动灵活, 可替代人工进行危险领域作业等特点日益成为国内外学者的研究重点
. 在水面无人驾驶技术体系中, 感知技术是核心, 而现阶段国内外对其感知技术的研究仍处于起步 …