Unmanned Surface Vessels in Marine Surveillance and Management: Advances in Communication, Navigation, Control, and Data-Driven Research
Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) have emerged as vital tools in marine monitoring and management due to their high efficiency, low cost, and flexible deployment capabilities. This paper presents a systematic review focusing on four core areas of USV applications: communication networking, navigation...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
MDPI AG
2025-05-01
|
| Series: | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/5/969 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1849711298521071616 |
|---|---|
| author | Zhichao Lv Xiangyu Wang Gang Wang Xuefei Xing Chenlong Lv Fei Yu |
| author_facet | Zhichao Lv Xiangyu Wang Gang Wang Xuefei Xing Chenlong Lv Fei Yu |
| author_sort | Zhichao Lv |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) have emerged as vital tools in marine monitoring and management due to their high efficiency, low cost, and flexible deployment capabilities. This paper presents a systematic review focusing on four core areas of USV applications: communication networking, navigation, control, and data-driven operations. First, the characteristics and challenges of acoustic, electromagnetic, and optical communication methods for USV networking are analyzed, with an emphasis on the future trend toward multimodal communication integration. Second, a comprehensive review of global navigation, local navigation, cooperative navigation, and autonomous navigation technologies is provided, highlighting their applications and limitations in complex environments. Third, the evolution of USV control systems is examined, covering group control, distributed control, and adaptive control, with particular attention given to fault tolerance, delay compensation, and energy optimization. Finally, the application of USVs in data-driven marine tasks is summarized, including multi-sensor fusion, real-time perception, and autonomous decision-making mechanisms. This study aims to reveal the interaction and coordination mechanisms among communication, navigation, control, and data-driven operations from a system integration perspective, providing insights and guidance for the intelligent operations and comprehensive applications of USVs in marine environments. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-c18cd2a9b1e441e0b50e015c0dec8cc5 |
| institution | DOAJ |
| issn | 2077-1312 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2025-05-01 |
| publisher | MDPI AG |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering |
| spelling | doaj-art-c18cd2a9b1e441e0b50e015c0dec8cc52025-08-20T03:14:39ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122025-05-0113596910.3390/jmse13050969Unmanned Surface Vessels in Marine Surveillance and Management: Advances in Communication, Navigation, Control, and Data-Driven ResearchZhichao Lv0Xiangyu Wang1Gang Wang2Xuefei Xing3Chenlong Lv4Fei Yu5College of Marine Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaCollege of Marine Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaCollege of Marine Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaCollege of Marine Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaCollege of Marine Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaCollege of Marine Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaUnmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) have emerged as vital tools in marine monitoring and management due to their high efficiency, low cost, and flexible deployment capabilities. This paper presents a systematic review focusing on four core areas of USV applications: communication networking, navigation, control, and data-driven operations. First, the characteristics and challenges of acoustic, electromagnetic, and optical communication methods for USV networking are analyzed, with an emphasis on the future trend toward multimodal communication integration. Second, a comprehensive review of global navigation, local navigation, cooperative navigation, and autonomous navigation technologies is provided, highlighting their applications and limitations in complex environments. Third, the evolution of USV control systems is examined, covering group control, distributed control, and adaptive control, with particular attention given to fault tolerance, delay compensation, and energy optimization. Finally, the application of USVs in data-driven marine tasks is summarized, including multi-sensor fusion, real-time perception, and autonomous decision-making mechanisms. This study aims to reveal the interaction and coordination mechanisms among communication, navigation, control, and data-driven operations from a system integration perspective, providing insights and guidance for the intelligent operations and comprehensive applications of USVs in marine environments.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/5/969unmanned surface vehiclecommunication networkingnavigationcontroldata-drive |
| spellingShingle | Zhichao Lv Xiangyu Wang Gang Wang Xuefei Xing Chenlong Lv Fei Yu Unmanned Surface Vessels in Marine Surveillance and Management: Advances in Communication, Navigation, Control, and Data-Driven Research Journal of Marine Science and Engineering unmanned surface vehicle communication networking navigation control data-drive |
| title | Unmanned Surface Vessels in Marine Surveillance and Management: Advances in Communication, Navigation, Control, and Data-Driven Research |
| title_full | Unmanned Surface Vessels in Marine Surveillance and Management: Advances in Communication, Navigation, Control, and Data-Driven Research |
| title_fullStr | Unmanned Surface Vessels in Marine Surveillance and Management: Advances in Communication, Navigation, Control, and Data-Driven Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unmanned Surface Vessels in Marine Surveillance and Management: Advances in Communication, Navigation, Control, and Data-Driven Research |
| title_short | Unmanned Surface Vessels in Marine Surveillance and Management: Advances in Communication, Navigation, Control, and Data-Driven Research |
| title_sort | unmanned surface vessels in marine surveillance and management advances in communication navigation control and data driven research |
| topic | unmanned surface vehicle communication networking navigation control data-drive |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/5/969 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT zhichaolv unmannedsurfacevesselsinmarinesurveillanceandmanagementadvancesincommunicationnavigationcontrolanddatadrivenresearch AT xiangyuwang unmannedsurfacevesselsinmarinesurveillanceandmanagementadvancesincommunicationnavigationcontrolanddatadrivenresearch AT gangwang unmannedsurfacevesselsinmarinesurveillanceandmanagementadvancesincommunicationnavigationcontrolanddatadrivenresearch AT xuefeixing unmannedsurfacevesselsinmarinesurveillanceandmanagementadvancesincommunicationnavigationcontrolanddatadrivenresearch AT chenlonglv unmannedsurfacevesselsinmarinesurveillanceandmanagementadvancesincommunicationnavigationcontrolanddatadrivenresearch AT feiyu unmannedsurfacevesselsinmarinesurveillanceandmanagementadvancesincommunicationnavigationcontrolanddatadrivenresearch |