CoDAC: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Clusters via Multi-Modal Dynamic Perception and Collaborative Community Detection

Autonomous obstacle avoidance for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) clusters in dynamic marine environments faces challenges including heterogeneous sensor fusion, multi-objective optimization conflicts, and scalable swarm coordination. This paper proposes CoDAC, an autonomous obstacle avoidance optimi...

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Main Authors: Youhong Li, Jiawei Ye, Le Gao, Min Cai
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description Autonomous obstacle avoidance for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) clusters in dynamic marine environments faces challenges including heterogeneous sensor fusion, multi-objective optimization conflicts, and scalable swarm coordination. This paper proposes CoDAC, an autonomous obstacle avoidance optimization method that synergizes multimodal dynamic perception and incremental community detection. The method establishes an integrated “perception-planning-collaboration” framework. First, cross-modal feature fusion and spatio-temporal alignment techniques significantly enhance environmental perception accuracy and robustness, effectively addressing heterogeneous sensor data fusion challenges. Second, an incremental dynamic community detection mechanism achieves adaptive task group partitioning for clusters, substantially reducing communication loads and computational complexity while ensuring high-efficiency collaboration at scale. Meanwhile, the Improved Velocity Obstacle Model (IVO-DWA) integrates Triangle Obstacle Zone (TOZ) prediction with multi-objective optimization, enabling real-time trade-offs among path length, smoothness, and compliance with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs). Simulation experiments demonstrate that CoDAC exhibits superior real-time performance and stability in complex scenarios, strictly adheres to maritime rules, and improves the emergency obstacle avoidance success rate by 26.7% (to 96.7%). The proposed method provides a highly reliable and scalable solution for the collaboration of unmanned systems in complex and dynamic marine environments.
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spelling doaj-art-b1f8d86f7c164336abc012ac95ee5b312025-08-20T03:02:26ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-011313455213456910.1109/ACCESS.2025.359323611098833CoDAC: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Clusters via Multi-Modal Dynamic Perception and Collaborative Community DetectionYouhong Li0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9514-1049Jiawei Ye1Le Gao2Min Cai3Intelligent Special Equipment Engineering Center, Guangzhou Huaili College, Guangzhou, ChinaIntelligent Special Equipment Engineering Center, Guangzhou Huaili College, Guangzhou, ChinaIntelligent Special Equipment Engineering Center, Guangzhou Huaili College, Guangzhou, ChinaIntelligent Special Equipment Engineering Center, Guangzhou Huaili College, Guangzhou, ChinaAutonomous obstacle avoidance for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) clusters in dynamic marine environments faces challenges including heterogeneous sensor fusion, multi-objective optimization conflicts, and scalable swarm coordination. This paper proposes CoDAC, an autonomous obstacle avoidance optimization method that synergizes multimodal dynamic perception and incremental community detection. The method establishes an integrated “perception-planning-collaboration” framework. First, cross-modal feature fusion and spatio-temporal alignment techniques significantly enhance environmental perception accuracy and robustness, effectively addressing heterogeneous sensor data fusion challenges. Second, an incremental dynamic community detection mechanism achieves adaptive task group partitioning for clusters, substantially reducing communication loads and computational complexity while ensuring high-efficiency collaboration at scale. Meanwhile, the Improved Velocity Obstacle Model (IVO-DWA) integrates Triangle Obstacle Zone (TOZ) prediction with multi-objective optimization, enabling real-time trade-offs among path length, smoothness, and compliance with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs). Simulation experiments demonstrate that CoDAC exhibits superior real-time performance and stability in complex scenarios, strictly adheres to maritime rules, and improves the emergency obstacle avoidance success rate by 26.7% (to 96.7%). The proposed method provides a highly reliable and scalable solution for the collaboration of unmanned systems in complex and dynamic marine environments.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11098833/Unmanned surface vehicle clustersmulti-modal perceptionincremental community detectioncollaborative path planningCOLREGs compliance
spellingShingle Youhong Li
Jiawei Ye
Le Gao
Min Cai
CoDAC: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Clusters via Multi-Modal Dynamic Perception and Collaborative Community Detection
IEEE Access
Unmanned surface vehicle clusters
multi-modal perception
incremental community detection
collaborative path planning
COLREGs compliance
title CoDAC: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Clusters via Multi-Modal Dynamic Perception and Collaborative Community Detection
title_full CoDAC: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Clusters via Multi-Modal Dynamic Perception and Collaborative Community Detection
title_fullStr CoDAC: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Clusters via Multi-Modal Dynamic Perception and Collaborative Community Detection
title_full_unstemmed CoDAC: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Clusters via Multi-Modal Dynamic Perception and Collaborative Community Detection
title_short CoDAC: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Optimization for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Clusters via Multi-Modal Dynamic Perception and Collaborative Community Detection
title_sort codac autonomous obstacle avoidance optimization for unmanned surface vehicle clusters via multi modal dynamic perception and collaborative community detection
topic Unmanned surface vehicle clusters
multi-modal perception
incremental community detection
collaborative path planning
COLREGs compliance
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11098833/
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