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 …

Over the past decade, drones have become a popular tool for wildlife management and
research. Drones have shown significant value for animals that were often difficult or …

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 …

The proper control of the maximum convergence time toward a desired motion or trajectory
is highly recommended for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) in the case of autonomous …

Remote sensing technologies have been used to study the behaviour and movements of
fish in the sea for about 30 years. The first relatively simple devices have given rise to a suite …

This paper presents a low-level controller for an unmanned surface vehicle based on
adaptive dynamic programming and deep reinforcement learning. This approach uses a …

At the MIT Sea Grant College Program, autonomous surface craft (ASCs) have been under
development since 1993. These systems have been designed for various missions and …

Autonomous ships represent an emerging paradigm within the maritime sector, poised to
bring multiple advantages. Although numerous prototypes have been developed, the …

Due to the complex environment and variable demands, unmanned surface vessel (USV)
task assignment and path planning have received much attention from academia and …

This paper presents a prototype system that enables an autonomous underwater vehicle
(AUV) to autonomously track and follow a shark that has been tagged with an acoustic …