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 …

The review unmanned surface vehicle path planning: Based on multi-modality constraint

C Zhou, S Gu, Y Wen, Z Du, C Xiao, L Huang, M Zhu - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The essence of the path planning problems is multi-modality constraint. However, most of
the current literature has not mentioned this issue. This paper introduces the research …

A real-time collision avoidance learning system for Unmanned Surface Vessels

Y Zhao, W Li, P Shi - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
A great amount of effort has been devoted to the study on Unmanned Surface Vehicles
(USV) due to an increasing demand for their use in a variety of maritime applications. Real …

Target following with motion prediction for unmanned surface vehicle operating in cluttered environments

P Švec, A Thakur, E Raboin, BC Shah, SK Gupta - Autonomous Robots, 2014 - Springer
The capability of following a moving target in an environment with obstacles is required as a
basic and necessary function for realizing an autonomous unmanned surface vehicle (USV) …

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 …

Dynamics-aware target following for an autonomous surface vehicle operating under COLREGs in civilian traffic

P Svec, BC Shah, IR Bertaska, J Alvarez… - 2013 IEEE/RSJ …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a model-predictive trajectory planning algorithm for following a target boat by an
autonomous unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in an environment with static obstacle …

Application of A* algorithm for real-time path re-planning of an unmanned surface vehicle avoiding underwater obstacles

T Phanthong, T Maki, T Ura, T Sakamaki… - Journal of Marine …, 2014 - Springer
This paper describes path re-planning techniques and underwater obstacle avoidance for
unmanned surface vehicle (USV) based on multi-beam forward looking sonar (FLS). Near …

Motion planning for an unmanned surface vehicle based on topological position maps

C Zhou, S Gu, Y Wen, Z Du, C Xiao, L Huang, M Zhu - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the motion-planning problem for an unmanned surface vehicle
(USV), in which the goal is to find the shortest search time, the shortest path in navigational …

Trajectory-cell based method for the unmanned surface vehicle motion planning

Z Du, Y Wen, C Xiao, L Huang, C Zhou… - Applied Ocean Research, 2019 - Elsevier
A trajectory-cell based method was proposed for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) motion
planning to combine the expression of the dynamic constraints and the discretization of the …

A circle grid-based approach for obstacle avoidance motion planning of unmanned surface vehicles

M Zhu, C Xiao, S Gu, Z Du… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Aiming at an obstacle avoidance problem with dynamic constraints for Unmanned Surface
Vehicle (USV), a method based on Circle Grid Trajectory Cell (CGTC) is proposed. Firstly …