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 …

COLREGS-constrained real-time path planning for autonomous ships using modified artificial potential fields

H Lyu, Y Yin - The Journal of navigation, 2019 - cambridge.org
This paper presents a real-time and deterministic path planning method for autonomous
ships or Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) in complex and dynamic navigation …

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 …

COLREGS-based collision avoidance algorithm for unmanned surface vehicles using modified artificial potential fields

W Liu, K Qiu, X Yang, R Wang, Z Xiang, Y Wang… - Physical …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, to improve the safety of navigation in dynamic environments, a new collision
avoidance method is presented for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs). It is mainly focused …

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 …

Resolution-adaptive risk-aware trajectory planning for surface vehicles operating in congested civilian traffic

BC Shah, P Švec, IR Bertaska, AJ Sinisterra… - Autonomous …, 2016 - Springer
The growing variety and complexity of marine research and application oriented tasks
requires unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to operate fully autonomously over long time …

Multi-contact protocol-constrained collision avoidance for autonomous marine vehicles

K Woerner - 2016 - dspace.mit.edu
The field of autonomous collision avoidance has continued to advance in many areas
including sensory and perception, navigation, payload integration, and collision avoidance …

Collision avoidance road test for COLREGS-constrained autonomous vehicles

KL Woerner, MR Benjamin, M Novitzky… - OCEANS 2016 MTS …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently developed algorithms quantify and subsequently evaluate COLREGS performance
in collision avoidance scenarios based on vessel track data. Combining these evaluation …

Intent inference of ship collision avoidance behavior under maritime traffic rules

Y Cho, J Kim, J Kim - Ieee Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an algorithm to infer the maneuver intention of an obstacle ship and to
check its compliance with the maritime traffic rules to avoid ship collision and ensure …

无人水面艇研究现状与发展趋势

彭艳, 葛磊, 李小毛, 钟雨轩, 张鑫 - 上海大学学报(自然科学版), 2019 - journal.shu.edu.cn
无人水面艇(unmanned surface vehicle, USV) 是一种在水面进行自主航行的运载平台,
属于海洋机器人的一个重要分支, 在军用和民用领域均有广泛的应用前景. 由于海洋环境恶劣 …