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 …

A review on automated sorting of source-separated municipal solid waste for recycling

SP Gundupalli, S Hait, A Thakur - Waste management, 2017 - Elsevier
A crucial prerequisite for recycling forming an integral part of municipal solid waste (MSW)
management is sorting of useful materials from source-separated MSW. Researchers have …

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 …

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 …

Path planning algorithm for unmanned surface vehicle formations in a practical maritime environment

Y Liu, R Bucknall - Ocean engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have been deployed over the past decade. Current
USV platforms are generally of small size with low payload capacity and short endurance …

Autonomous vessels: state of the art and potential opportunities in logistics

Y Gu, JC Goez, M Guajardo… - … in Operational Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The growth in technology on autonomous transportation systems is currently motivating a
number of research initiatives. This paper first presents a survey of the literature on …

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) …

Observer-based neural adaptive formation control of autonomous surface vessels with limited torque

K Shojaei - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, the output feedback formation control of autonomous marine surface vessels
with limited torque input is addressed. In order to successfully design a formation control …

Local reactive obstacle avoidance approach for high-speed unmanned surface vehicle

P Tang, R Zhang, D Liu, L Huang, G Liu, T Deng - Ocean engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are important autonomous marine robots that have
been extensively studied and gradually applied. However, the autonomy of USVs is still …

Experimental evaluation of automatically-generated behaviors for USV operations

IR Bertaska, B Shah, K von Ellenrieder, P Švec… - Ocean …, 2015 - Elsevier
The performance of four automatically-generated path planning behaviors is evaluated
through field-testing. Experiments were conducted using a model-referenced trajectory …