Network-based global H∞ pinning synchronisation for unmanned marine vehicles subject to disturbances

Special Issue on Unmanned Marine Vehicles

For many years there has been considerable interest by the scientific, offshore and naval sectors in the design and development of unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) in order to perform a multitude of different tasks. Much advancement has been realized in this area, however, the need for advanced navigation, guidance and control (NGC) systems for UMVs continues to grow as these sectors now demand ...

Unmanned Marine Vehicles at CNR-ISSIA

This paper discusses the requirements, design and operational aspects of the Unmanned Marine Vehicles (UMVs), namely the Romeo Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and the Charlie Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), developed at CNR-ISSIA, Genova, Italy for robotics research and scientific applications, pointing out the synergies between the development of underwater and surface unmanned vehicles.

Challenging the Marine Frontier with Unmanned Marine Vehicles

In recent years, as offshore resources, not only fishery resources, including oil, natural gas, rare metals, and other minerals attract increasing attention, national surveys have been underway in the vast seas that surround Japan. IHI applied own robot technologies to take another step forward in achieving autonomous unmanned maritime systems for conducting detailed surveys at a water depth of...

Nested autonomy for unmanned marine vehicles with MOOS-IvP

Michael R. Benjamin Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island 02841, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 e-mail: [email protected] Henrik Schmidt Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02...

Probabilistic synchronisation of pinning control