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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"autonomous surface vessels"”.
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Neural Network Fusion of Multi-Modal Sensor Data For Autonomous Surface Vessels
<p>Autonomous surface vessels (ASV) can potentially improve the safety of vessels traditionally operated by humans. Despite advancements in autonomous on-road vehicles, many of these advancements have yet to be realized for ASVs. This is primarily due to lacking ASV sensing platforms and public …
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A Study in Object Detection and Classification Performance by Sensing Modality for Autonomous Surface Vessels
… for real-time maritime object detection on autonomous surface vessels. Using Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s (ERAU) Minion platform and 2024 Maritime RobotX Challenge data, this study evaluates the detection of six maritime object categories using two representative models. YOLOv8 …
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Coordinated Sensor-Based Area Coverage and Cooperative Localization of a Heterogeneous Fleet of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs)
… aquatic environment and collection of aquatic surface vehicles with known kinematic and dynamic constraints, how can a fleet of vehicles be deployed to provide sensor coverage of the surface of the body of water? Rather than considering this problem in general, in this work we consider the …
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A practical search with Voronoi distributed autonomous marine swarms
… this issue more complex. The advent of capable autonomous underwater vehicles presents a 21st century flare to this traditional problem. These vehicles can be smaller, quieter, and expendable. Therefore, new methods and tactics used to detect and track these vehicles are needed. The use of a …
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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 …
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Methods for Testing COLREGS Compliance in AutonomousSurface Vehicles
… there is an increasing number of uncrewed and autonomous surface vessels operating at sea. Preventing collisions at sea is of paramount importance to safeguard lives, protect the marine environment, and maintain smooth maritime operations. Effectively preventing collisions at sea between manned …
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A Practical Search with Voronoi Distributed Autonomous Marine Swarms
… this issue more complex. The advent of capable autonomous underwater vehicles presents a 21st century flare to this traditional problem. These vehicles can be smaller, quieter, and expendable. Therefore, new methods and tactics used to detect and track these vehicles are needed. The use of a …
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Wingsail design methodology and performance evaluation metrics for autonomous sailing
… is particularly well suited to long-distance surface vessel tracking, and facilitates affordable collision avoidance capabilities on autonomous surface vessels. One such low-cost collision avoidance system is presented, utilizing real-time data from the Automatic Information System (AIS) and …
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Wingsail Design Methodology and Performance Evaluation Metrics for Autonomous Sailing
… is particularly well suited to long-distance surface vessel tracking, and facilitates affordable collision avoidance capabilities on autonomous surface vessels. One such low-cost collision avoidance system is presented, utilizing real-time data from the Automatic Information System (AIS) and …
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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 …