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A novel double layered hybrid multi-robot framework for guidance and navigation of unmanned surface vehicles in a practical maritime environment
Singh, Y.; Bibuli, M.; Zereik, E.; Sharma, S.; Khan, A.; Sutton, R. (2020). A novel double layered hybrid multi-robot framework for guidance and navigation of unmanned surface vehicles in a practical maritime environment. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 8(9): 624. https://hdl.handle.net/10.3390/jmse8090624
In: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. MDPI: Basel. ISSN 2077-1312; e-ISSN 2077-1312, more
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Keyword
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    A* path planning; marine environment; multi-robot systems; navigation; unmanned surface vehicle

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  • Singh, Y., more
  • Bibuli, M.
  • Zereik, E.
  • Sharma, S.
  • Khan, A.
  • Sutton, R.

Abstract
    Formation control and cooperative motion planning are two major research areas currently being used in multi robot motion planning and coordination. The current study proposes a hybrid framework for guidance and navigation of swarm of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) by combining the key characteristics of formation control and cooperative motion planning. In this framework, two layers of offline planning and online planning are integrated and applied on a practical marine environment. In offline planning, an optimal path is generated from a constrained A* path planning approach, which is later smoothed using a spline. This optimal trajectory is fed as an input for the online planning where virtual target (VT) based multi-agent guidance framework is used to navigate the swarm of USVs. This VT approach combined with a potential theory based swarm aggregation technique provides a robust methodology of global and local collision avoidance based on known positions of the USVs. The combined approach is evaluated with the different number of USVs to understand the effectiveness of the approach from the perspective of practicality, safety and robustness.

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