Chia-Cheng HsuSheng-Wei HuangHo-Yueh HuangFeng-Yeang ChungChi-Min LiaoEdward ChenJEN-HWA GUO2024-11-052024-11-052024-04-1501977385https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85206821787&origin=resultslisthttps://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/722726A 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.falseautopilotship simulatorunmanned surface vehicleswireless charging[SDGs]SDG3[SDGs]SDG7conference paper10.1109/OCEANS51537.2024.107066342-s2.0-85206821787