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 …

Intelligent motion control of unmanned surface vehicles: A critical review

MJ Er, C Ma, T Liu, H Gong - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the emerging tools of ocean operation, unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have
shown great potential in ocean exploration in recent years. Motion control is an important …

The autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance for USVs with ANOA deep reinforcement learning method

X Wu, H Chen, C Chen, M Zhong, S Xie, Y Guo… - Knowledge-Based …, 2020 - Elsevier
The unmanned surface vehicle (USV) has been widely used to accomplish missions in the
sea or dangerous marine areas for ships with sailors, which greatly expands protective …

Intelligent multi-task allocation and planning for multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) using self-organising maps and fast marching method

Y Liu, R Song, R Bucknall, X Zhang - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
As a result of the advances in autonomous navigation technology, ocean based operations
with increasing levels of complexity can be undertaken using unmanned surface vehicles …

[HTML][HTML] Review of floating object manipulation by autonomous multi-vessel systems

Z Du, RR Negenborn, V Reppa - Annual Reviews in Control, 2023 - Elsevier
The regulatory endorsement of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the
support of pivotal shipping market players in recent years motivate the investigation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying research directions of a remotely-controlled merchant ship by revisiting her system-theoretic safety control structure

K Wróbel, M Gil, J Montewka - Safety Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the concept of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) being in the limelight of
research and development effort within the shipping industry, there are still some existing …

Unsupervised learning based coordinated multi-task allocation for unmanned surface vehicles

S Ma, W Guo, R Song, Y Liu - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent decades, unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are attracting increasing attention
due to their underlying capability in autonomously undertaking complex maritime tasks in …

Cooperative defense of autonomous surface vessels with quantity disadvantage using behavior cloning and deep reinforcement learning

S Sun, T Li, X Chen, H Dong, X Wang - Applied Soft Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) excel at undertaking hazardous tasks,
garnering significant attention recently. Particularly, ASV cooperative defense is a crucial …

Automated self-assembly of large maritime structures by a team of robotic boats

J Paulos, N Eckenstein, T Tosun, J Seo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the methodology, algorithms, system design, and experiments addressing the
self-assembly of large teams of autonomous robotic boats into floating platforms. Identical …

Cooperative strategies for two-evader-one-pursuer reach-avoid differential games

R Yan, Z Shi, Y Zhong - International Journal of Systems Science, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
A reach-avoid differential game with two evaders and one pursuer is considered in the plane
which is divided into a play region and a goal region by a straight line. Two evaders, starting …