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 review on improving the autonomy of unmanned surface vehicles through intelligent collision avoidance manoeuvres

S Campbell, W Naeem, GW Irwin - Annual Reviews in Control, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years unmanned vehicles have grown in popularity, with an ever increasing
number of applications in industry, the military and research within air, ground and marine …

Unmanned surface vehicles, 15 years of development

JE Manley - OCEANS 2008, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To celebrate the 40 th Anniversary of the Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) at the
MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2008 Conference in Quebec City a series of review papers were …

Modeling, identification, and control of an unmanned surface vehicle

CR Sonnenburg, CA Woolsey - journal of Field Robotics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes planar motion modeling for an unmanned surface vehicle (USV),
including a comparative evaluation of several experimentally identified models over a wide …

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

R Song, Y Liu, R Bucknall - Ocean Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Concerns regarding the influence of the marine environment, such as surface currents and
winds, on autonomous marine vehicles have been raised in recent years. A number of …

Obstacle avoidance approaches for autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vehicles

R Polvara, S Sharma, J Wan, A Manning… - The Journal of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The adoption of a robust collision avoidance module is required to realise fully autonomous
Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs). In this work, collision detection and path planning …

[PDF][PDF] An autonomous surface vehicle for water quality monitoring

M Dunbabin, A Grinham, J Udy - Australasian conference on robotics …, 2009 - araa.asn.au
This paper describes a novel Autonomous Surface Vehicle capable of navigating throughout
complex inland water storages and measuring a range of water quality properties and …

A review of path following control strategies for autonomous robotic vehicles: Theory, simulations, and experiments

N Hung, F Rego, J Quintas, J Cruz… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an in‐depth review of path following control strategies that are
applicable to a wide range class of marine, ground, and aerial autonomous robotic vehicles …

Target following with motion prediction for unmanned surface vehicle operating in cluttered environments

P Švec, A Thakur, E Raboin, BC Shah, SK Gupta - Autonomous Robots, 2014 - Springer
The capability of following a moving target in an environment with obstacles is required as a
basic and necessary function for realizing an autonomous unmanned surface vehicle (USV) …

Autonomous bathymetry for risk assessment with ROAZ robotic surface vehicle

H Ferreira, C Almeida, A Martins, J Almeida… - Oceans 2009 …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned marine robotic vehicles in bathymetric surveys is discussed. This
paper presents recent results in autonomous bathymetric missions with the ROAZ …