A three-layered architecture for real time path planning and obstacle avoidance for surveillance USVs operating in harbour fields

OCEANS '09 IEEE Bremen: Balancing Technology with Future Needs

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Casalino, Giuseppe ^a   Turetta, Alessio ^a   Simetti, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURES; HUMAN OPERATOR; KINEMATIC DATA; LAYERED ARCHITECTURE; MOVING OBSTACLES; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; OBSTACLE DETECTION SENSORS; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; OPEN PROBLEMS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; RADAR TRACK; REAL TIME PATH PLANNING; ROBOTIC COMMUNITY; SECOND LAYER; SECURITY APPLICATION; SIMULATION RESULT; STATIC OBSTACLES; STILL MISSING; SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS; TELEOPERATED; UNDERWATER VEHICLES; UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLES;

MARINE APPLICATIONS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SENSORS; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 71249148443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2009.5278104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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