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Aspects of a Reliable Autonomous Navigation and Guidance System for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper describes a novel navigation and guidance (NG) system designed to address the issue of receiving unreliable navigational data considering an unmanned surface vehicles (USVs).
Bucknall, R, Liu, W, Liu, Y, Song, R
core   +1 more source

A Multi-Layered Potential Field Method for Water-Jet Propelled Unmanned Surface Vehicle Local Path Planning with Minimum Energy Consumption

open access: yesPolish Maritime Research, 2019
Focusing on the influence of wind and surface currents on local path planning in the marine environment, a multilayered potential field (MPF) method is proposed to minimize the energy consumption of a water-jet propelled unmanned surface vehicle (USV). A
Wang Shasha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transformer: A Multifunctional Fast Unmanned Aerial Vehicles–Unmanned Surface Vehicles Coupling System

open access: yesMachines, 2021
With the continuous development of the maritime economy, the maritime unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become important parts of the maritime transportation system.
Mingzhang Chen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research and Implementation of Global Path Planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Based on Electronic Chart

open access: yes, 2017
Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) is a new type of intelligent surface craft, and global path planning is the key technology of USV research, which can reflect the intelligent level of USV.
Li, Baoan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Robust Adaptive Control of an Uninhabited Surface Vehicle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, we develop a novel and robust adaptive autopilot for uninhabited surface vehicles (USV). In practice, usually asudden change in dynamics results in aborted missions and the USV has to be rescued to avoid possible damage to other marine ...
A. S. K. Annamalai   +29 more
core   +2 more sources

A Natural Language Interface with Relayed Acoustic Communications for Improved Command and Control of AUVs

open access: yes, 2018
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are being tasked with increasingly complex missions. The acoustic communications required for AUVs are, by the nature of the medium, low bandwidth while adverse environmental conditions underwater often mean they are
Garcia, Francisco J. Chiyah   +8 more
core   +1 more source

A multi-layered fast marching method for unmanned surface vehicle path planning in a time-variant maritime environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Concerns regarding the influence of the marine environment, such as surface currents and winds, on autonomous marine vehicles have been raised in recent years.
Bucknall, R, Liu, Y, Song, R
core   +1 more source

Application of Heterogeneous Robotic System for Underwater Oil Spill Scenario [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The tragic Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 as well as the increase in deepwater offshore activity have increased public interest in counter-measures available for subsurface releases of hydrocarbons.
Antonio Vasilijević   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

A Two-layered Fast Marching Path Planning Algorithm for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle Operating in a Dynamic Environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper describes a modified fast marching (FM) path planning algorithm for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). The modified FM algorithm generates a two-layered synthetic vector field to represent a dynamic environment.
Bucknall, R, Liu, W, Liu, Y, Song, R
core   +1 more source

Mapping of research related to unmanned surface vehicles (USV)

open access: yes, 2022
Autonomous vehicles have been used for over 60 years, with the advancement of technology and new approaches, unmanned surface vehicles known as USV (Unmanned Surface Vehichle) were developed. This study aimed to quantitatively map the scientific productions related to unmanned surface vehicles (USV), through scientometric analysis, highlighting ...
Cano, Éric Vieira   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

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