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 constrained A* approach towards optimal path planning for an unmanned surface vehicle in a maritime environment containing dynamic obstacles and ocean …

Y Singh, S Sharma, R Sutton, D Hatton, A Khan - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Efficient path planning is a critical issue for the navigation of modern unmanned surface
vehicles (USVs) characterized by a complex operating environment having dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Risk-based implementation of COLREGs for autonomous surface vehicles using deep reinforcement learning

A Heiberg, TN Larsen, E Meyer, A Rasheed, O San… - Neural Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Autonomous systems are becoming ubiquitous and gaining momentum within the marine
sector. Since the electrification of transport is happening simultaneously, autonomous …

COLREG-RRT: An RRT-based COLREGS-compliant motion planner for surface vehicle navigation

HTL Chiang, L Tapia - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning for autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) is challenging since surface
vessels are nonlinear underactuated kinodynamic systems with often large inertia. Thus …

Autonomous maritime collision avoidance: Field verification of autonomous surface vehicle behavior in challenging scenarios

DKM Kufoalor, TA Johansen, EF Brekke… - Journal of Field …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present results from sea trials for an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) equipped with a
collision avoidance system based on model predictive control (MPC). The sea trials were …

The branching‐course model predictive control algorithm for maritime collision avoidance

BOH Eriksen, M Breivik, EF Wilthil… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a new algorithm for short‐term maritime collision avoidance (COLAV)
named the branching‐course model predictive control (BC‐MPC) algorithm. The algorithm is …

Control of an unmanned surface vehicle with uncertain displacement and drag

WB Klinger, IR Bertaska… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Experimental testing of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) has been performed to evaluate
the performance of two low-level controllers when displacement and drag properties are …

Quantifying protocol evaluation for autonomous collision avoidance: Toward establishing COLREGS compliance metrics

K Woerner, MR Benjamin, M Novitzky, JJ Leonard - Autonomous Robots, 2019 - Springer
Collision avoidance protocols such as COLREGS are written primarily for human operators
resulting in a rule set that is open to some interpretation, difficult to quantify, and challenging …

Hybrid collision avoidance for ASVs compliant with COLREGs rules 8 and 13–17

BOH Eriksen, G Bitar, M Breivik… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This paper presents a three-layered hybrid collision avoidance (COLAV) system for
autonomous surface vehicles, compliant with rules 8 and 13–17 of the International …

Long-distance path planning for unmanned surface vehicles in complex marine environment

BC Shah, SK Gupta - IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many missions require unmanned surface vehicles to operate in complex environments over
large distances. Marine environments are dynamic in nature and change over time as a …