Overview and control strategies of autonomous sailboats—A survey

Y Tipsuwan, P Sanposh, N Techajaroonjit - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades, marine robots have become increasingly important for a wide range of
applications in bodies of water, including oceans, gulfs, and lakes. One type of unmanned …

Unmanned Surface Vehicle Thruster Fault Diagnosis via Vibration Signal Wavelet Transform and Vision Transformer under Varying Rotational Speed Conditions

H Cho, JH Park, KB Choo, M Kim, DH Ji, HS Choi - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Among unmanned surface vehicle (USV) components, underwater thrusters are pivotal in
their mission execution integrity. Yet, these thrusters directly interact with marine …

Predictive course control and guidance of autonomous unmanned sailboat based on efficient sampled Gaussian process

Y Dong, N Wu, J Qi, X Chen, C Hua - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In view of the vulnerability of ocean unmanned sailboats to the large lateral velocities due to
wind and waves during navigation, this paper proposes a Gaussian Process Model …

General system architecture and COTS prototyping of an AIoT-enabled sailboat for autonomous aquatic ecosystem monitoring

APD de Araújo, DHJ Daniel, R Guerra… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned vehicles keep growing attention as they facilitate innovative commercial and civil
applications within the Internet of Things (IoT) realm. In this context, autonomous sailing …

MPC-Based Collaborative Control of Sail and Rudder for Unmanned Sailboat

S Liu, Z Yu, T Wang, Y Chen, Y Zhang… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the traditional motion control method of an unmanned sailboat, the sail and rudder are
divided into two independent controllers. The sail is used to obtain the thrust and the rudder …

A model-based PID control of turning maneuver for catamaran autonomous surface vessel

I Astrov - 2023 International Conference on Engineering and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effective automatic control of aerial, water, and ground autonomous vehicles become
one of the high-priority tasks in the areas of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Industry 4.0, and …

Design of a Towing System by Multi Autonomous Sailboats*

C Liang, B Lin, H Qian - 2024 IEEE International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For researchers or administrators of relevant institutions who need to collect hydrological
data of a certain water area, using autonomous sailboats to tow floating detection equipment …

An optimal control method for an autonomous surface vessel for environment monitoring and cargo transportation applications

I Astrov, A Udal, H Molder - 2021 25th International Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effective computer control of autonomous airborne, waterborne, and ground vehicles
has become an important issue in the development of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) …

Towards an Autonomous Sailboat Navigation Control Architecture

A Araújo, R Guerra, V Mankina, P Preux… - 2024 Latin American …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned surface vessels of sailboat type are becoming important platforms for tasks such
as surveillance and environmental monitoring. However, making them fully autonomous …

A Model-Based LQR Control of an Obstacle Avoidance Maneuver of a Self-Driving Car

I Astrov, A Udal, H Pikner… - 2022 IEEE 20th Jubilee …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The safe and effective computer control of different types of autonomous vehicles is
becoming an increasingly important task in modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and in …