Obstacle Avoidance of Surface Agent Formation Based on Streamline Traction at Fixed-Time

The marine environment is highly complex and variable, featuring obstacles such as islands, buoys, and vessels. Safe navigation of the surface agent (SA) fleet is crucial for ensuring the safety of the SA fleet, enhancing operational efficiency, and guaranteeing the smooth execution of the fleet’s m...

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Main Authors: Yiping Liu, Yameng Niu, Jianqiang Zhang, Weihao Tao
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Published: MDPI AG 2024-11-01
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Weihao Tao
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description The marine environment is highly complex and variable, featuring obstacles such as islands, buoys, and vessels. Safe navigation of the surface agent (SA) fleet is crucial for ensuring the safety of the SA fleet, enhancing operational efficiency, and guaranteeing the smooth execution of the fleet’s mission. Regarding the problem of formation obstacle avoidance for SA fleets encountering complex obstacles during navigation, this chapter presents a fixed-time-based safe navigation algorithm for the SA fleet based on streamline traction. Firstly, to precisely position each SA at the designated location within the formation, a highly malleable leader–follower formation mode is introduced. Based on an enhanced interfered fluid dynamical system (EIFDS) obstacle avoidance algorithm, the virtual Leader is guided to evade static obstacles and determine a trajectory of the designated position. Secondly, a first-order fixed-time control Lyapunov function (FTCLF) is designed based on the EIFDS obstacle avoidance algorithm to guide the angular velocity constraint. The optimal guiding angular velocity signal is obtained through quadratic programming, ensuring that the SA steers towards the designated position while avoiding obstacles. Next, for the guiding velocity amplitude signal, a first-order fixed-time control barrier function (FTCBF) is designed based on the streamline formation scheme and the inter-boat safety distance to guide the velocity amplitude constraint. The optimal guiding velocity amplitude signal is obtained through quadratic programming, guaranteeing that each SA maintains the formation while avoiding collisions with adjacent vessels. Finally, the simulation results indicate the effectiveness, superiority, and stability of the proposed fixed-time-based safe navigation guidance algorithm for the SA fleet based on streamline traction.
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spelling doaj-art-ecce9f72a09c48c39648724d45a68a9c2025-08-20T02:53:19ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122024-11-011212217210.3390/jmse12122172Obstacle Avoidance of Surface Agent Formation Based on Streamline Traction at Fixed-TimeYiping Liu0Yameng Niu1Jianqiang Zhang2Weihao Tao3The Technology Innovation Center of Maritime Intelligent, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430000, ChinaCollege of Electronic Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430000, ChinaThe Technology Innovation Center of Maritime Intelligent, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430000, ChinaThe Technology Innovation Center of Maritime Intelligent, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430000, ChinaThe marine environment is highly complex and variable, featuring obstacles such as islands, buoys, and vessels. Safe navigation of the surface agent (SA) fleet is crucial for ensuring the safety of the SA fleet, enhancing operational efficiency, and guaranteeing the smooth execution of the fleet’s mission. Regarding the problem of formation obstacle avoidance for SA fleets encountering complex obstacles during navigation, this chapter presents a fixed-time-based safe navigation algorithm for the SA fleet based on streamline traction. Firstly, to precisely position each SA at the designated location within the formation, a highly malleable leader–follower formation mode is introduced. Based on an enhanced interfered fluid dynamical system (EIFDS) obstacle avoidance algorithm, the virtual Leader is guided to evade static obstacles and determine a trajectory of the designated position. Secondly, a first-order fixed-time control Lyapunov function (FTCLF) is designed based on the EIFDS obstacle avoidance algorithm to guide the angular velocity constraint. The optimal guiding angular velocity signal is obtained through quadratic programming, ensuring that the SA steers towards the designated position while avoiding obstacles. Next, for the guiding velocity amplitude signal, a first-order fixed-time control barrier function (FTCBF) is designed based on the streamline formation scheme and the inter-boat safety distance to guide the velocity amplitude constraint. The optimal guiding velocity amplitude signal is obtained through quadratic programming, guaranteeing that each SA maintains the formation while avoiding collisions with adjacent vessels. Finally, the simulation results indicate the effectiveness, superiority, and stability of the proposed fixed-time-based safe navigation guidance algorithm for the SA fleet based on streamline traction.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/12/12/2172unmanned surface vehiclesformation obstacle avoidancedynamical systemsinterfered fluid dynamical systemfixed-time control Lyapunov functionfixed-time control barrier function
spellingShingle Yiping Liu
Yameng Niu
Jianqiang Zhang
Weihao Tao
Obstacle Avoidance of Surface Agent Formation Based on Streamline Traction at Fixed-Time
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
unmanned surface vehicles
formation obstacle avoidance
dynamical systems
interfered fluid dynamical system
fixed-time control Lyapunov function
fixed-time control barrier function
title Obstacle Avoidance of Surface Agent Formation Based on Streamline Traction at Fixed-Time
title_full Obstacle Avoidance of Surface Agent Formation Based on Streamline Traction at Fixed-Time
title_fullStr Obstacle Avoidance of Surface Agent Formation Based on Streamline Traction at Fixed-Time
title_full_unstemmed Obstacle Avoidance of Surface Agent Formation Based on Streamline Traction at Fixed-Time
title_short Obstacle Avoidance of Surface Agent Formation Based on Streamline Traction at Fixed-Time
title_sort obstacle avoidance of surface agent formation based on streamline traction at fixed time
topic unmanned surface vehicles
formation obstacle avoidance
dynamical systems
interfered fluid dynamical system
fixed-time control Lyapunov function
fixed-time control barrier function
url https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/12/12/2172
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