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 development of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with advanced guidance, navigation and control (GNC) capabilities. Th...

This paper presents the development of autonomy capability for an unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The development mainly focuses on the high-level autonomy on perception, path planning, guidance and control to achieve real sea applications of the USV. First, visual recognition and point cloud data p...

In this paper, a cloud-based mission control architecture is proposed to achieve flexible remote access and coordinated mission control among a fleet of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). First, a cloud-based mission control architecture that renders easy, timely and prioritized remote access to the ...