A Guidance Method for a Small Unmanned Surface Vehicle Wireless Charging
Journal
OCEANS 2024 - Singapore
Part Of
Oceans Conference Record (IEEE)
Start Page
1-5
Date Issued
2024-04-15
Author(s)
DOI
10.1109/OCEANS51537.2024.10706634
Abstract
A small unmanned surface vehicle (USV) usually carries a limited battery, and the mission duration is also limited. Wireless charging at sea is a way to extend the duration of USV. This work extends the study of developing a vector field-based guidance method for collision avoidance in the ship simulator. When the USV is in a vector field where near the charging station, the ship follows the vector field for guiding to touch the wireless charging plate. This vector field consists of a straight-line vector field and four circular vector fields in four quadrants to form a heading command to steer the ship. The feasibility of this work is tested by implementing the vector field guidance method into a ship simulator. In this work, the simulation considered wind, wave, and current influences on ship motions and combined the vector field-based guidance method to show the feasibility of the guidance method for USV wireless charging.
Event(s)
OCEANS 2024 - Singapore, OCEANS 2024, Singapore 15 April 2024 through 18 April 2024. Code 202913
Subjects
autopilot
ship simulator
unmanned surface vehicles
wireless charging
Publisher
IEEE
Type
conference paper