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 survey on unmanned surface vehicles for disaster robotics: Main challenges and directions

VAM Jorge, R Granada, RG Maidana, DA Jurak… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Disaster robotics has become a research area in its own right, with several reported cases of
successful robot deployment in actual disaster scenarios. Most of these disaster …

Distributed containment maneuvering of multiple marine vessels via neurodynamics-based output feedback

Z Peng, J Wang, D Wang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a neurodynamics-based output feedback scheme is proposed for distributed
containment maneuvering of marine vessels guided by multiple parameterized paths without …

Dynamics-level finite-time fuzzy monocular visual servo of an unmanned surface vehicle

N Wang, H He - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, in the presence of completely unknown dynamics and unmeasurable
velocities, a dynamics-level finite-time fuzzy monocular visual servo (DFFMVS) scheme is …

Active Vision-Based Finite-Time Trajectory-Tracking Control of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle Without Direct Position Measurements

H He, N Wang, D Huang, B Han - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a two-level visual servo strategy is elaborately devised for an unmanned
surface vehicle (USV) equipped with a pan-tilt camera, so as to exactly track the desired …

Extreme learning-based monocular visual servo of an unmanned surface vessel

N Wang, H He - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, suffering from unmatched visual-servo uncertainties and unknown dynamics/
disturbances, an extreme learning-based monocular visual-servo (ELMVS) scheme is …

New hybrid vision-based control approach for automated guided vehicles

Z Miljković, N Vuković, M Mitić, B Babić - The International Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are a common choice made by many companies for
material handling (MH) in manufacturing systems. AGV-based internal transport of raw …

Adaptive homography-based visual servo for micro unmanned surface vehicles

N Wang, H He - The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing …, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, a novel adaptive homography-based visual servo (AHBVS) scheme is
proposed to regulate a micro unmanned surface vehicle (MUSV) to the desired pose in the …

Chemistry-inspired pattern formation with robotic swarms

P Rezeck, L Chaimowicz - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-organized emergent patterns can be widely seen in particle interactions producing
complex structures such as chemical elements and molecules. Inspired by these …

Hydroacoustic Autonomous boat for Remote fish detection in LakE (HARLE), an unmanned autonomous surface vehicle to monitor fish populations in lakes

C Goulon, O Le Meaux… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To evaluate the aquatic ecosystem's quality and ensure the sustainable management of
fisheries, it is important to monitor fish populations. Hydroacoustics uses sound waves to …