With growing worldwide interest in commercial, scientific, and military issues associated with
both oceans and shallow waters, there has been a corresponding growth in demand for the …

Collision prevention is critical for navigation safety at sea. At early ages, researchers aimed
at develo** navigational assistance systems for enhancing situational awareness of …

A crucial prerequisite for recycling forming an integral part of municipal solid waste (MSW)
management is sorting of useful materials from source-separated MSW. Researchers have …

Target detection and tracking encompasses a variety of decisional problems such as
coverage, surveillance, search, patrolling, observing and pursuit-evasion along with others …

This article addresses a guidance and control strategy for an unmanned surface vehicle
subject to uncertainties. The controller uses a dynamic three-degree-of-freedom model with …

This paper presents a novel model-reference reinforcement learning algorithm for the
intelligent tracking control of uncertain autonomous surface vehicles with collision …

The proper control of the maximum convergence time toward a desired motion or trajectory
is highly recommended for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) in the case of autonomous …

Many missions require unmanned surface vehicles to operate in complex environments over
large distances. Marine environments are dynamic in nature and change over time as a …