Overview and analysis on recent research and challenges of dropped objects in offshore engineering

G Xiang, K Rao, X Xiang, X Yu - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
With an increasing number of offshore operations taking place at sea, the occurrence of
dropped objects has become more widespread and frequent. These incidents can result in a …

A survey on population-based meta-heuristic algorithms for motion planning of aircraft

Y Wu - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2021 - Elsevier
Meta-heuristic algorithms have turned out to be good methods to address optimization
problems with complicated constraints, and those algorithms have been widely applied to …

3D trajectory optimization of the slender body freely falling through water using cuckoo search algorithm

G Xiang, X Xiang - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of trajectory optimization of underwater slender bodies is commonly
encountered during offshore operations such as deploying the anchor into seabed at the …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental study on the trajectory of projectile water entry with asymmetric nose shape

Y Shi, Y Hua, G Pan - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, we investigated the water entry trajectory characteristics of a projectile with an
asymmetric nose shape at different initial impact velocities and impact angles …

Trajectory planning for hybrid unmanned aerial underwater vehicles with smooth media transition

PM Pinheiro, AA Neto, RB Grando, CB Silva… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2022 - Springer
In the last decade, a great effort has been employed in the study of Hybrid Unmanned Aerial
Underwater Vehicles, robots that can easily fly and dive into the water with different levels of …

Attitude and altitude control of unmanned aerial-underwater vehicle based on incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion

G Chen, A Liu, J Hu, J Feng, Z Ma - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A vehicle able to navigate both in the air and underwater is referred to an unmanned aerial-
underwater vehicle (UAUV). Aiming at the attitude and altitude control of UAUVs, an …

Fixed-time attitude control for aircraft with strongly constrained actuators

Z Liu, Z Meng - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates a novel fixed-time attitude control method for trans-medium aircraft to
ensure proper contact between the fuselage and the new medium before transmitting from …

Numerical investigation of the water-entry impact performance of a bionic unmanned aerial-underwater vehicle

W Gan, J Zhuang, Y Zhang, Z Zuo, J Xiang - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerical investigation of the water-entry impact performance of a bionic unmanned aerial–
underwater vehicle (UAUV) is performed. According to the modified SST turbulent model …

Mathematical modeling of the oblique water-entry of cylindrical projectiles

M Mirzaei, H Taghvaei, MM Alishahi - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Water-entry is the process in which a moving body with an initial velocity impacts the free
surface and enters the water from the air and has many important applications in different …

Water entry impact dynamics of diving birds

SI Sharker, S Holekamp, MM Mansoor… - Bioinspiration & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Some seabirds (such as northern gannets and brown boobies) can dive from heights as
high as 30 m reaching speeds of up to 24 ms− 1 as they impact the water surface. The …