Unified Approach of Unmanned Surface Vehicle Navigation in Presence of Waves

Most of the present work for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) navigation does not take into account environmental disturbances such as ocean waves, winds, and currents. In some scenarios, waves should be treated as special case of dynamic obstacle and can be critical to USV’s safety. For the first tim...

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Main Author: Oren Gal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Robotics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/703959
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description Most of the present work for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) navigation does not take into account environmental disturbances such as ocean waves, winds, and currents. In some scenarios, waves should be treated as special case of dynamic obstacle and can be critical to USV’s safety. For the first time, this paper presents unique concept facing this challenge by combining ocean waves' formulation with the probabilistic velocity obstacle (PVO) method for autonomous navigation. A simple navigation algorithm is presented in order to apply the method of USV’s navigation in presence of waves. A planner simulation dealing with waves and obstacles avoidance is introduced.
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spelling doaj-art-1aa18d2dc6704c5495fea1bbea9dce412025-08-20T02:01:58ZengWileyJournal of Robotics1687-96001687-96192011-01-01201110.1155/2011/703959703959Unified Approach of Unmanned Surface Vehicle Navigation in Presence of WavesOren Gal0Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, IsraelMost of the present work for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) navigation does not take into account environmental disturbances such as ocean waves, winds, and currents. In some scenarios, waves should be treated as special case of dynamic obstacle and can be critical to USV’s safety. For the first time, this paper presents unique concept facing this challenge by combining ocean waves' formulation with the probabilistic velocity obstacle (PVO) method for autonomous navigation. A simple navigation algorithm is presented in order to apply the method of USV’s navigation in presence of waves. A planner simulation dealing with waves and obstacles avoidance is introduced.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/703959
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