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Zhengchao Yan, Chenxu Zhao, Qianyu Hu, Min Wu, Lin Qiao, Kehan Zhang and Yuli Hu
Inductive power transfer (IPT) technology is widely used in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to achieve safety and flexibility. However, the eddy current loss (ECL) will be generated in the seawater due to the high-frequency alternating current in t...
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Andrey V. Savkin, Satish Chandra Verma and Stuart Anstee
This paper focuses on safe navigation of an unmanned surface vehicle in proximity to a submerged autonomous underwater vehicle so as to maximise short-range, through-water data transmission while minimising the probability that the two vehicles will acci...
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Yuexing Zhang, Yiping Li, Shuo Li, Junbao Zeng, Yiqun Wang and Shuxue Yan
This paper proposes a centralized MTT method based on a state-of-the-art multi-sensor labeled multi-Bernoulli (LMB) filter in underwater multi-static networks with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The LMB filter can accurately extract the number of...
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Liang Li, Yiping Li, Yuexing Zhang, Gaopeng Xu, Junbao Zeng and Xisheng Feng
Effective communication between multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is necessary for formation control. As the most reliable underwater communication method, acoustic communication still has many constraints compared with radio communication, ...
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Le Hong, Weicheng Cui and Hao Chen
As marine plastic pollution threatens the marine ecosystem seriously, the government needs to find an effective way to clean marine plastics. Due to the advantages of easy operation and high efficiency, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have been app...
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Jimin Hwang, Neil Bose, Hung Duc Nguyen and Guy Williams
We introduce an adaptive sampling method that has been developed to support the Backseat Driver control architecture of the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) Explorer autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The design is based on an acoustic detecti...
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Zhuo Wang, Hao Lu, Hongde Qin and Yancheng Sui
This study aims to solve the issue of the safe navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in an unknown underwater environment. AUV will encounter canyons, rocks, reefs, fish, and underwater vehicles that threaten its safety during underwater na...
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Ioannis Polymenis, Maryam Haroutunian, Rose Norman and David Trodden
Underwater Vehicles have become more sophisticated, driven by the off-shore sector and the scientific community?s rapid advancements in underwater operations. Notably, many underwater tasks, including the assessment of subsea infrastructure, are performe...
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Yushan Sun, Xiaokun Luo, Xiangrui Ran and Guocheng Zhang
This research aims to solve the safe navigation problem of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in deep ocean, which is a complex and changeable environment with various mountains. When an AUV reaches the deep sea navigation, it encounters many underwat...
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Maricruz Fun Sang Cepeda, Marcos de Souza Freitas Machado, Fabrício Hudson Sousa Barbosa, Douglas Santana Souza Moreira, Maria José Legaz Almansa, Marcelo Igor Lourenço de Souza and Jean-David Caprace
Operators of offshore production units (OPUs) employ risk-based assessment (RBA) techniques in order to minimise inspection expenses while maintaining risks at an acceptable level. However, when human divers and workers are involved in inspections conduc...
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Qiao Zhang, Chunming Dong, Zongze Shao and Donghui Zhou
The growing need for deep-sea biological research and environmental monitoring has expanded the demand for benthic landers. Compared with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), benthic landers can reduce overall oper...
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Cris Thomas, Enrico Simetti and Giuseppe Casalino
This research proposes a unified guidance and control framework for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) based on the task priority control approach, incorporating various behaviors such as path following, terrain following, obstacle avoidance, as well ...
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Anyuan Bi, Fengye Zhao, Xiantao Zhang and Tong Ge
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly being applied to highly detailed survey and inspection tasks over large ocean regions. These vehicles are required to have underwater hovering and low-speed cruising capabilities, and energy-saving p...
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Sungil Byun and Dongik Lee
This paper presents a phased fault tree analysis (phased-FTA)-based approach to evaluate the performability of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in real time. AUVs carry out a wide range of missions, including surveying the marine environment, search...
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Lin Zhang, Yanbin Gao and Lianwu Guan
For seabed mapping, the prevalence of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) employing side-scan sonar (SSS) necessitates robust navigation solutions. However, the positioning errors of traditional strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) and Doppler v...
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Junsen Wang, Yulin Tang, Shaohua Jin, Gang Bian, Xinyang Zhao and Chengyang Peng
Given the lack of systematic research on bathymetric surveys with multi-beam sonar carried by autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in unfamiliar waters, this paper proposes a method for multi-beam bathymetric surveys based on the constant-depth mode of ...
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Dan Yu, Hongjian Wang, Benyin Li, Zhao Wang, Jingfei Ren and Xiaoning Wang
The assessment of multiple incoming autonomous underwater vehicles (multi-AUVs) and threat prioritization are critical to underwater defense. To solve problems troubling multi-AUV threat assessment solutions, such as difficult data analysis, high subject...
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Mingyao Zhang, Zheping Yan, Jiajia Zhou and Lidong Yue
This paper focuses on the collision-free formation tracking of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with compound disturbances in complex ocean environments. We propose a novel finite-time extended state observer (FTESO)-based distributed dual closed-lo...
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Jiqing Du, Dan Zhou and Sachiyo Arai
This study introduces a hybrid control structure called Improved Interfered Fluid Dynamic System Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (IIFDS-NMPC) for the path planning and trajectory tracking of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The system consists o...
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Moon Hwan Kim, Teasuk Yoo, Seok Joon Park and Kyungwon Oh
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have emerged as pivotal tools for intricate underwater missions, spanning seafloor exploration to meticulous inspection of subsea infrastructures such as pipelines and cables. Although terrestrial obstacle avoidance ...
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