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 …

Fish-inspired robots: design, sensing, actuation, and autonomy—a review of research

A Raj, A Thakur - Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Underwater robot designs inspired by the behavior, physiology, and anatomy of fishes can
provide enhanced maneuverability, stealth, and energy efficiency. Over the last two …

Autonomous pilot of unmanned surface vehicles: Bridging path planning and tracking

N Wang, Y Zhang, CK Ahn, Q Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous pilot is crucial in integrally promoting the autonomy of an unmanned surface
vehicle (USV). However, the integration mechanism of decision and control is still unclear …

Guidance and control based on adaptive sliding mode strategy for a USV subject to uncertainties

A Gonzalez-Garcia, H Castañeda - IEEE Journal of Oceanic …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses a guidance and control strategy for an unmanned surface vehicle
subject to uncertainties. The controller uses a dynamic three-degree-of-freedom model with …

Finite-time control for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle based on adaptive sliding mode strategy

J Rodriguez, H Castañeda, A Gonzalez-Garcia… - Ocean engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The proper control of the maximum convergence time toward a desired motion or trajectory
is highly recommended for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) in the case of autonomous …

Adaptive path following control of unmanned surface vehicles considering environmental disturbances and system constraints

Z Liu, Y Zhang, C Yuan, J Luo - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current maritime applications have yielded strong demands for the development of
advanced unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with more reliable path following capabilities …

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 …

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) …

An efficient motion planning based on grid map: Predicted Trajectory Approach with global path guiding

S Han, L Wang, Y Wang, H He - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a Predicted Trajectory Approach (PTA) for global motion planning of an
underactuated unmanned surface vehicle (USV). Different from the conventional path …

Artificial intelligence algorithms in unmanned surface vessel task assignment and path planning: A survey

K Gao, M Gao, M Zhou, Z Ma - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the complex environment and variable demands, unmanned surface vessel (USV)
task assignment and path planning have received much attention from academia and …