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Zhangqi Yang, Ye Li, Bo Wang, Shuoshuo Ding and Peng Jiang
For unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), perception and control are commonly performed in embedded devices with limited computing power. Sea surface object detection can provide sufficient information for USVs, while most algorithms have poor real-time perf...
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Tao Liu, Bo Pang, Lei Zhang, Wei Yang and Xiaoqiang Sun
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have been extensively used in various dangerous maritime tasks. Vision-based sea surface object detection algorithms can improve the environment perception abilities of USVs. In recent years, the object detection algorith...
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Le Wang, Qing Wu, Jialun Liu, Shijie Li and Rudy R. Negenborn
At present, with the development of waterborne transport vehicles, research on ship faces a new round of challenges in terms of intelligence and autonomy. The concept of maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) has been put forward by the International M...
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Shitu Chen, Ling Feng, Xuteng Bao, Zhe Jiang, Bowen Xing and Jingxiang Xu
Path planning is crucial for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to navigate and avoid obstacles efficiently. This study evaluates and contrasts various USV path-planning algorithms, focusing on their effectiveness in dynamic obstacle avoidance, resistance ...
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Nur Hamid, Willy Dharmawan and Hidetaka Nambo
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are experiencing significant development across various fields due to extensive research, enabling these devices to offer substantial benefits. One kind of research that has been developed to produce better USVs is path p...
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Zhiyao Zhao, Bin Zhu, Yan Zhou, Peng Yao and Jiabin Yu
This paper solves the problem of cooperative path planning of multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) for search and coverage tasks in water environments. Firstly, taking the search coverage problem of water surface pollutants as an example, the inform...
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Duansong Wang, Min Kong, Gang Zhang and Xiaoling Liang
The formation control of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) while considering communication topology, dynamic model uncertainties, environmental disturbances, and a fast convergence rate is addressed in this paper. First, graph theory is introduced to desc...
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Guoqing Xia, Xianxin Sun and Xiaoming Xia
This paper investigates swarm control for unmanned surface vessels subject to multiple constraints. These constraints can be summarized as model parameter uncertainty, the unavailability of velocity measurements, time-varying environmental disturbances, ...
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Helong Shen, Yong Yin and Xiaobin Qian
In this paper, under parametric uncertainties and complex disturbances, a leader?follower formation control strategy based on accurate disturbance observer (ADO) and a novel fixed-time fast terminal sliding mode (FTFTSM) control for unmanned surface vehi...
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Charis Ntakolia and Dimitrios V. Lyridis
Advances in robotic motion and computer vision have contributed to the increased use of automated and unmanned vehicles in complex and dynamic environments for various applications. Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have attracted a lot of attention from ...
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Haolin Xue, Xiang Chen, Ruo Zhang, Peng Wu, Xudong Li and Yuanchang Liu
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are receiving increasing attention in recent years from both academia and industry. To make a high-level autonomy for USVs, the environment situational awareness is a key capability. However, due to the richness of the fe...
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Guoqing Xia, Xianxin Sun and Xiaoming Xia
This paper addresses the distributed swarm control problem of multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in Euclidean space with virtual leader. Firstly, to investigate the topology of the neighborhood relations between vehicles, a new time-variant topolo...
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Zixu Wang, Chenwei Nie, Hongwu Wang, Yong Ao, Xiuliang Jin, Xun Yu, Yi Bai, Yadong Liu, Mingchao Shao, Minghan Cheng, Shuaibing Liu, Siyu Wang and Nuremanguli Tuohuti
Maize (Zea mays L.), one of the most important agricultural crops in the world, which can be devastated by lodging, which can strike maize during its growing season. Maize lodging affects not only the yield but also the quality of its kernels. The identi...
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Duansong Wang, Mingyu Fu, Shuzhi Sam Ge and Dongyu Li
This paper studies the velocity free platoon formation control for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with the model uncertainties and output constraints. Firstly, a reconstruction module is designed to estimate the velocity of the leader, which will be co...
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Jia-hui Shi and Zheng-jiang Liu
There is a collection of a large amount of automatic identification system (AIS) data that contains ship encounter information, but mining the collision avoidance knowledge from AIS big data and carrying out effective machine learning is a difficult prob...
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Simone Marini, Nikolla Gjeci, Shashank Govindaraj, Alexandru But, Benjamin Sportich, Ennio Ottaviani, Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Pedro Jose Bernalte Sanchez, Jonas Pedersen, Casper Vetke Clausen, Fantina Madricardo, Fedeirca Foglini, Federico Bonofiglio, Laura Barbieri, Massimiliano Antonini, Yeidy Sorani Montenegro Camacho, Peter Weiss, Kathrin Nowak, Makthoum Peer, Thibaud Gobert, Alessio Turetta, Elias Chatzidouros, Dongik Lee, Dimitris Zarras, Theodore Steriotis, Georgia Charalambopoulou, Thanos Yamas and Mayorkinos Papaeliasadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
The oceans cover more than two-thirds of the planet, representing the vastest part of natural resources. Nevertheless, only a fraction of the ocean depths has been explored. Within this context, this article presents the H2020 ENDURUNS project that descr...
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Wenhao Li, Xianxia Zhang, Yueying Wang and Songbo Xie
Model predictive control (MPC), an extensively developed rolling optimization control method, is widely utilized in the industrial field. While some researchers have incorporated predictive control into underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), mos...
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Guoquan Xiao, Guihong Zheng, Chao Tong and Xiaobin Hong
An overall framework of the virtual testing system has been established based on the analysis of the virtual testing requirements for autonomous navigation performance of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). This system consists of several modules, includin...
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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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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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