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Weilin Yang, Tianjing Shen, Tinglong Pan, Guanyang Hu and Dezhi Xu
In this paper, the consensus control of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is investigated by employing a distributed model predictive control approach. A hierarchical control structure is considered during the controller design, where the upper layer dete...
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Xiaoyu Zhu, Huachao Yang, Hefang Bian, Yang Mei, Bolun Zhang and Peng Xue
Underground coal mining will inevitably cause serious ground deformation, and therefore, preventive mining-induced deformation analysis (MIDA) is of great importance in assisting mining planning and decision-making. Current web-based Geographic Informati...
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Wei Liu, Hui Ye and Xiaofei Yang
A novel data-driven-based adaptive sliding-mode control scheme is proposed for unmanned surface vehicle course control in the presence of disturbances. The proposed method utilizes the model-free adaptive control (MFAC) theory. On account of the unknown ...
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Huixuan Fu, Wenjing Yao, Ricardo Cajo and Shiquan Zhao
The motion of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is frequently disturbed by ocean wind, waves, and currents. A poorly designed controller will cause failures and safety problems during actual navigation. To obtain a satisfactory motion control performance ...
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Xiuling Wang, Yong Yin and Qianfeng Jing
Due to the complicated and changing circumstances of the sea environment, path planning technology is essential for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to fulfill search tasks. In most cases, the location of the underwater target is unknown, so it is necess...
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Guangzhong Liu, Sheng Zhang, Guojie Ma and Yipeng Pan
In order to solve the problem of many constraints and a complex navigation environment in the path planning of unmanned surface vehicles (USV), an improved sparrow search algorithm combining cubic chaotic map and Gaussian random walk strategy was propose...
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Yuanming Chen, Xiaobin Hong, Bin Cui and Rongfa Peng
With the increasingly maturing technology of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), their applications are becoming more and more widespread. In order to meet operational requirements in complex scenarios, the real-time interaction and linkage of a large amou...
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Yong Li, Ruichen Wang, Dongxu Gao and Zhiyong Liu
Unmanned surface vehicle (USV)-based floating-waste detection presents significant challenges. Due to the water surface?s high reflectivity, there are often light spots and reflections in images captured by USVs. Furthermore, floating waste often consist...
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Guanqun Liu, Naifeng Wen, Feifei Long and Rubo Zhang
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 structure method. The approach involves a leader?follower formation stru...
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Weixiang Zhou, Mengyan Ning, Jian Ren and Jiqiang Xu
An effective path-following controller is a guarantee for stable sailing of underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). This paper proposes an event-triggered robust control approach considering an unknown model nonlinearity, external disturbance, an...
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Wei Liu, Hui Ye and Xiaofei Yang
For an underactuated unmanned surface vehicle (USV), time-varying external disturbances affect the accuracy of trajectory tracking. To ensure trajectory tracking accuracy, in this paper the reduced-order extended state observer (ESO) and the super-twisti...
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Jia Zheng, Jincai Chen, Xinjian Wu, Han Liang, Zhi Zheng, Chuanbo Zhu, Yifan Liu, Chao Sun, Chuanqin Wang and Dahua He
As an important sensor of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV), an electro-optical device is usually used to detect ships and obstacles in USV autonomous navigation and collision avoidance. However, the installation perpendicularity error of the electro-opt...
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Guoqing Zhang, Shilin Yin, Chenfeng Huang and Weidong Zhang
This paper focuses on the intervehicle security-based robust formation control of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to implement the formation switch mission. In the scheme, a novel adaptive potential ship (APS)-based guidance principle is developed to pr...
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Tao Jiang, Yan Yan and Shuang-He Yu
This paper is concerned with the trajectory tracking control of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) subject to input quantization, actuator faults and dead zones. In scenarios with dense marine facilities, there are constraints on the tracking performance a...
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Xiaoyu Yuan, Chengchang Tong, Guoxiang He and Hongbo Wang
In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence algorithms has promoted the intelligent transformation of the ship industry; unmanned surface vessels (USVs) have become a widely used representative product. The dynamic window approach (...
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Senlin Guan, Kimiyasu Takahashi, Keiko Nakano, Koichiro Fukami and Wonjae Cho
Many cropping systems, notably for rice or soybean production, rely largely on arable land levelness. In this study, an automated levelness assessment system (ALAS) for evaluating lowland levelness is proposed. The measurement accuracy of total station, ...
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Yun Li and Haiyu Zhang
To ensure navigation safety, unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) need to have autonomous collision avoidance capability. A large number of studies on ship collision avoidance are available, and most of these papers assume that the target ships keep straight...
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Shaolong Yang, Jin Huang, Weichao Li and Xianbo Xiang
A growing number of researchers are interested in deploying unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in support of ocean environmental monitoring. To accomplish these missions efficiently, multiple-waypoint path planning strategies for survey USVs are still a ke...
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Qingze Yu and Yumin Su
Unmanned surface vehicles frequently encounter foggy weather when performing surface object tracking tasks, resulting in low optical image quality and object recognition accuracy. Traditional defogging algorithms are time consuming and do not meet real-t...
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Zhiyuan Sun, Hanbing Sun, Ping Li and Jin Zou
A self-organizing cooperation strategy for multiple unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to pursue intelligent evaders in the case of a dynamic obstacle vessel is proposed. Firstly, a self-organizing cooperative hunting strategy is proposed to form an Apollon...
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