Numerous path-planning studies have been conducted in past decades due to the
challenges of obtaining optimal solutions. This paper reviews multi-robot path-planning …

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

In this paper, under unforeseen circumstances, a dynamics-constrained global-local (DGL)
hybrid path planning scheme incorporating global path planning and local hierarchical …

A two-stage ship path planning method is proposed, based on the Rapid-exploring Random
Tree (RRT) algorithm, which is composed of global path planning and local path planning …

This paper proposes a distributed control scheme for autonomous tugboats to tow a ship in a
restricted water traffic environment ensuring collision avoidance while being compliant with …

In this paper, a hierarchical control framework with relevant algorithms is proposed to
achieve autonomous navigation for an underactuated unmanned surface vehicle (USV) …

Image-based sensing of jellyfish is important as they can cause great damage to the
fisheries and seaside facilities and need to be properly controlled. In this paper, we present …

This paper investigates the multi-agent interception problem under switching topology
based on deep reinforcement learning. Due to communication restrictions or network …

A marine autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) is a kind of autonomous marine robot with
intelligent and flexible use advantages. They are mainly divided into two categories …

Path planning on grid graphs has been studied for decades in several applications such as
robotics and computer games. However, the process for determining short paths can still be …