Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges

Z Liu, Y Zhang, X Yu, C Yuan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2016 - Elsevier
With growing worldwide interest in commercial, scientific, and military issues associated with
both oceans and shallow waters, there has been a corresponding growth in demand for the …

A real-time collision avoidance learning system for Unmanned Surface Vessels

Y Zhao, W Li, P Shi - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
A great amount of effort has been devoted to the study on Unmanned Surface Vehicles
(USV) due to an increasing demand for their use in a variety of maritime applications. Real …

COLREGs-based collision avoidance strategies for unmanned surface vehicles

W Naeem, GW Irwin, A Yang - Mechatronics, 2012 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to report the preliminary development of an automatic collision
avoidance technique for unmanned marine craft based on standardised rules, COLREGs …

UAV path planning with tangent-plus-Lyapunov vector field guidance and obstacle avoidance

H Chen, K Chang, CS Agate - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dynamic path-planning algorithm is proposed for routing unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) in
order to track ground targets under path constraints, wind effects, and obstacle avoidance …

Stereo obstacle detection for unmanned surface vehicles by IMU-assisted semantic segmentation

B Bovcon, J Perš, M Kristan - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
A new obstacle detection algorithm for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is presented. A
state-of-the-art graphical model for semantic segmentation is extended to incorporate boat …

Modeling, identification, and control of an unmanned surface vehicle

CR Sonnenburg, CA Woolsey - journal of Field Robotics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes planar motion modeling for an unmanned surface vehicle (USV),
including a comparative evaluation of several experimentally identified models over a wide …

The mastr1325 dataset for training deep usv obstacle detection models

B Bovcon, J Muhovič, J Perš… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The progress of obstacle detection via semantic segmentation on unmanned surface
vehicles (USVs) has been significantly lagging behind the developments in the related field …

A Voronoi-diagram-based dynamic path-planning system for underactuated marine vessels

M Candeloro, AM Lekkas, AJ Sørensen - Control Engineering Practice, 2017 - Elsevier
The main contribution of this paper is the development of a rapid, dynamic path-planning
system for 3-DOF marine surface vessels navigating in environments where other marine …

WaSR—A water segmentation and refinement maritime obstacle detection network

B Bovcon, M Kristan - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Obstacle detection using semantic segmentation has become an established approach in
autonomous vehicles. However, existing segmentation methods, primarily developed for …

Obstacle avoidance approaches for autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vehicles

R Polvara, S Sharma, J Wan, A Manning… - The Journal of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The adoption of a robust collision avoidance module is required to realise fully autonomous
Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs). In this work, collision detection and path planning …