Collaborative unmanned vehicles for inspection, maintenance, and repairs of offshore wind turbines

MH Nordin, S Sharma, A Khan, M Gianni, S Rajendran… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Operations and maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) are challenging, with
manual operators constantly exposed to hazardous environments. Due to the high task …

A novel cooperative design for USV–UAV systems: 3-D map** guidance and adaptive fuzzy control

J Li, G Zhang, Q Shan, W Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates a novel cooperative design for path following of the mixed-order
underactuated surface vehicle (USV) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the presence of …

Unmanned surface vehicles: From a hull design perspective

MHM Ghazali, MHA Satar, W Rahiman - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
An autonomous surface vehicle (USV) offers wide applications and is a demanding
technology in the fast-develo** era. Even though comprehensive studies have been …

The Wide-Area Coverage Path Planning Strategy for Deep-Sea Mining Vehicle Cluster Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

B **ng, X Wang, Z Liu - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
The path planning strategy of deep-sea mining vehicles is an important factor affecting the
efficiency of deep-sea mining missions. However, the current traditional path planning …

A Method for Designated Target Anti-Interference Tracking Combining YOLOv5 and SiamRPN for UAV Tracking and Landing Control

D Wu, H Zhu, Y Lan - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the rapid development in the field of computer vision, the vision-based approach to
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking and landing technology in weak global positioning …

Cooperative Unmanned Aerial and Surface Vehicles for Extended Coverage in Maritime Environments

MC Santos, B Bartlett, VE Schneider… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maritime operations, such as ship hull inspections, infrastructure assessments, and rapid
response to emergencies, often expose humans to hazardous environments. The …

Landing platform for autonomous inspection missions in mariculture using an asv and a uav

N Kapetanović, M Oreč, N Mišković, F Ferreira - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2022 - Elsevier
Cooperation of a lightweight autonomous aerial vehicle (LAAR) and an autonomous surface
vehicle (ASV) in prolonged robotic inspections missions in mariculture requires a landing …

Adaptive Fuzzy Quantized Control for a Cooperative USV-UAV System Based on Asynchronous Separate Guidance

Y **ng, G Zhang, J Li - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper focuses predominantly on the multi-tasks carried out by the cooperative
unmanned surface vehicle-unmanned aerial vehicle (USV-UAV) system in which the input …

Unmanned aerial vehicle landing localization technology based on visual dual-channel uniqueness coding

W Liu, J Shao, Y Yang, S Zhang - International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mainly uses GPS (Global Positioning System) for
positioning, but it is difficult to locate in areas where GPS signal is missing or being …

[PDF][PDF] Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repairs of Offshore Wind Turbines. Drones 2022, 6, 137

MH Nordin, S Sharma, A Khan, M Gianni, S Rajendran… - 2022 - academia.edu
Operations and maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) are challenging, with
manual operators constantly exposed to hazardous environments. Due to the high task …