Towards Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Huarong Zheng is a full researcher at Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, China. She has been working on autonomous maritime vehicles for more than ten years. Her research interests include ocean robotics, model predictive control, and distributed control and coordination with applications to waterborne networked systems.Chenguang Liu is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Maritime Technology and Safety, Wuhan University of Technology, China. His research interests include ship intelligent navigation, motion planning and control, formation control, advanced perception, and model predictive control theories and applications.

• 1 Overview of Unmanned Surface Vehicles I Advanced Navigation, Guidance, and Control: Methods Towards Autonomy 2 USV Navigation Methods and A Real-time Object Recognition System with 3D LiDAR 3 USV Guidance Methods and COLREGs-compliant Path Planning 4 USV Control Methods and Robust Control Handling Maritime Disturbances 5 Learning-based Control of USVs II Practices in the Field 6 USV Systematic Architecture 7 Field Tests of USVs: Safe Navigation in the Lock Waterway 8 Field Tests of USVs: Ship Turning Maneuver Tests III Applications over the Water 9 Waterborne Applications of USVs 10 Summary and future perspectives