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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"autonomous surface vessel"”.
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Mission Tasking, Path Planning, and System Integration for an Autonomous Surface Vessel
… presents the design and development of a fully autonomous surface vessel for use as a research platform for the Office of Naval Research and as a competition entry to the International Maritime RobotX Challenge in 2014 and 2016. The author’s contributions to this include the development of …
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Large-scale dynamic observation planning for unmanned surface vessels
With recent advances in research and technology, autonomous surface vessel capabilities have steadily increased. These autonomous surface vessel technologies enable missions and tasks to be performed without the direction of human operators, and have changed the way scientists and engineers …
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Tracking an underwater target
Autonomous underwater vehicles are becoming an important part in marine research. In order to help bring down the cost of running a research mission with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), the method of tracking the AUV can be improved. An autonomous surface vessel (ASV), equipped with both …
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Robust Observers And Controllers For Marine Surface Vessels Undergoing Maneuvering And Course-Keeping Tasks
<p>The dynamic behavior of marine surface vessels is highly nonlinear. Moreover, it is significantly influenced by environmental disturbances induced by winds, random sea waves and currents. To yield a desired response of the ship, the guidance and control system of the ship should be robust to …
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Experiments in Real-time Path Planning for Riverine Environments
… on the development and implementation of an autonomous path planning and obstacle avoidance algorithm for an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) in a riverine environment. The algorithm effectively handles trap situations, which occur when the river bends away from the destination. In addition, …
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Assessing High Dynamic Range Imagery Performance for Object Detection in Maritime Environments
<p>The field of autonomous robotics has benefited from the implementation of convolutional neural networks in vision-based situational awareness. These strategies help identify surface obstacles and nearby vessels. This study proposes the introduction of high dynamic range cameras on autonomous …