Coordinated control of multiple autonomous surface vehicles: Challenges and advances—A systematic review

MG Osorio, C Ierardi, IJ Flores, MP Martín, PM Gata - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing use and implementation of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) for various
activities in maritime environments is expected to drive a rise in developments and research …

Reinforcement learning swarm of self-organizing unmanned surface vehicles with unavailable dynamics

N Wang, Y Liu, J Liu, W Jia, C Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, self-organizing a swarm of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is creatively
solved by optimal reinforcement learning control approach without acquiring USV dynamics …

A Bibliometric Analysis and Overall Review of the New Technology and Development of Unmanned Surface Vessels

P Yang, J Xue, H Hu - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
With the significant role that Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) could play in industry, the
military and the transformation of ocean engineering, a growing research interest in USVs is …

RSPT: reconstruct surroundings and predict trajectory for generalizable active object tracking

F Zhong, X Bi, Y Zhang, W Zhang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Active Object Tracking (AOT) aims to maintain a specific relation between the
tracker and object (s) by autonomously controlling the motion system of a tracker given …

Sim-real joint experimental verification for an unmanned surface vehicle formation strategy based on multi-agent deterministic policy gradient and line of sight …

Y Li, X Li, X Wei, H Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The formation of multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) is an effective way to extend
the capabilities of a single USV to satisfy relatively complex tasks in practice. In this study …

DEMRL: Dynamic estimation meta reinforcement learning for path following on unseen unmanned surface vehicle

K Jin, H Zhu, R Gao, J Wang, H Wang, H Yi, CJR Shi - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Reinforcement learning has been widely used for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) control
tasks. However, the requirement of numerous training samples limits its transferability to new …

Networked and Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for Autonomous Marine Vehicles: A Survey

YL Wang, CC Wang, QL Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous marine vehicles, which provide a platform for the successful implementation of
special tasks, such as maritime rescue, maritime measurement, and dangerous goods …

Proactive multi-camera collaboration for 3d human pose estimation

H Ci, M Liu, X Pan, F Zhong, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03767, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) scheme for proactive Multi-
Camera Collaboration in 3D Human Pose Estimation in dynamic human crowds. Traditional …

Defense penetration strategy for unmanned surface vehicle based on modified soft actor–critic

Z Zhang, X Liang, C Chen, D Liu, C Yu, W Li - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the defense penetration problem for unmanned surface vehicle
(USV) with limited detection range under unknown defenders. A novel end-to-end defense …

A Formation Control and Obstacle Avoidance Method for Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles

G Liu, N Wen, F Long, R Zhang - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study introduces a method for formation control and obstacle avoidance for multiple
unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) by combining an artificial potential field with the virtual …