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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Unmanned Surface Vehicles"”.
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Software architecture for anti-submarine warfare unmanned surface vehicles
… warfare (ASW) operations by exploring the use of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Currently, the process of finding submarines tends to be tedious and manpower intensive due to the high volume of acoustic data with limited means to filter for valuable information. Therefore, innovative software …
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Enabling tactical autonomy for unmanned surface vehicles in defensive swarm engagements
… incorporates practical applications of marine vehicles with robotics control theory to reduce the vulnerability of allied assets to asymmetric warfare. This work utilizes distributed decentralized multi-objective optimization in the Mission Oriented Operating Suite with Interval Programming …
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Monitoring the Transport of Microorganisms in Aquatic Environments Using Unmanned Surface Vehicles
The majority of the Earths surface is covered with water, and the air-water interface (AWI) acts as the natural boundary between the atmosphere and the water. The AWI is an important ecological zone in natural aquatic habitats that governs transport of material and energy between bodies of water …
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Deep reinforcement learning for adaptive monitarizacion and patrolling of water resources with unmanned surface vehicles
… efforts and high costs. The use of autonomous surface vehicles equipped with water quality measurement equipment and pollution variables increases efficiency and improves the precision and validity of biological models for such resources. Deploying these vehicles requires special attention to …
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A Guidance Algorithm for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Exhibiting Sternward Motion
… algorithm that incorporates sternward motion for unmanned surface vehicles. This work is motivated by riverine applications where the operating environment is large and poorly known. We extend a navigation approach for forward path planning into a more versatile framework that includes safe and …
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Autonomous data collection techniques for approximating marine vehicle kinematics
… encounters. Low cost, reconfigurable autonomous vehicles motivate using in-field online techniques rather than tow tank testing or Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). While the parameters of many physical dynamic models can be obtained using System Identification (SI) techniques, these models …
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Human-machine interaction for unmanned surface systems
… technologies for human-robot teams operating as unmanned surface systems (USS). An pilot role was found to be the most prevalent in the USS-related literature but additional human roles were determined to likely be necessary (e.g., Mission Specialist} though were not documented; interface needs …
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Coordinated guidance strategy for multiple USVs during maritime interdiction operations
… Defense (DOD) seeks to tackle this problem using unmanned technologies and applications. In particular, unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) seem to be a good solution contributing to successful maritime interdiction missions. The strategy would be to surround the target to restrict its further …
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An Application of Graph of Convex Sets Trajectory Optimization to the Marine Robotics Domain
Autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are becoming ubiquitous in applications exploring marine environments, and the design of path planning algorithms for these vehicles remains an open area of research. For marine environments, to save on energy a …
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Representation learning for long-term collaborative autonomy
… capability of all autonomous systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), unmanned surface vehicles (USV), humanoid robots, etc. Those fully or partially autonomous systems have been transforming the way people work, live, and communicate nowadays, e.g. …
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Sea state estimation from inertial platform data for real-time ocean wave prediction
… Recently, there has been a drive toward using Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), which can be deployed at a fraction of the cost, and provide greatly improved spatio-temporal data. The wave glider (WG) is one such autonomous marine robot used for …
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Robot-assisted measurement in data-sparse regions
The student, Sierra Young, accepted the attached license on 2015-12-04 at 15:36.
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Development of an Exteroceptive Sensor Suite on Unmanned Surface Vessels for Real-Time Classification of Navigational Markers
… and classification of navigational markers on Unmanned Surface Vessels. Three sensors were used to complete this task: a 3D LIDAR and two visible light cameras. First, all LIDAR points were transformed from the sensor’s reference frame to the local frame using a Kalman filter to estimate …