Unmanned maritime systems are evolving in a rapidly changing environment. Although the
regulation and international law processes are still in progress, there are numerous …

The growth in technology on autonomous transportation systems is currently motivating a
number of research initiatives. This paper first presents a survey of the literature on …

This paper investigates the novel path navigation method for an unmanned surface vehicle
(USV), which is divided into two-stage: global path planning and path control. In the first …

This paper studies the trajectory tracking problem of unmanned surface vehicle subject to
unmeasurable velocities and unknown disturbances. By combining a fixed-time extended …

With respect to navigation practices and real-ship applications, this study provided a stable
and reliable technical program for automatic ship navigation. First, an improved route-plan …

The ability to avoid shorelines, reefs and moving ships or obstacles is the premise of
automatic navigation. For achieving the goal, conventional A star algorithm is improved to …

The path planning for high-speed unmanned surface vehicle raises more complicated
requirements to reduce sailing time and save energy. In this article, a new predictive artificial …

This paper reviews current developments and discusses some critical issues with obstacle
detection systems for automated vehicles. The concept of autonomous driving is the driver …

In recent years, unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have been widely used in various
applications. To fulfill target missions, USVs must be able to plan their path to the …

To enhance the real-time performance and reliability of existing ship collision avoidance
methods by collision risk prediction, a predictive collision avoidance method based on an …