Abstract
Avoiding collisions with other objects is one of the most basic safety tasks undertaken in the operation of floating vehicles. Addressing this challenge is essential, especially during unmanned vehicle navigation processes in autonomous missions. This paper provides an empirical analysis of the surface target detection possibilities in a water environment, which can be used for the future development of tracking and anti-collision systems for autonomous surface vehicles (ASV). The research focuses on identifying the detection ranges and the field of view for various surface targets. Typical objects that could be met in the water environment were analyzed, including a boat and floating objects. This study describes the challenges of implementing automotive radar sensors for anti-collision tasks in a water environment from the perspective of target detection with the application for small ASV performing tasks on the lake.
Highlights
Unmanned vehicle technology and surface robots have been rapidly developed over the past few years
We propose a new idea, to implement an automotive 3D radar sensor in the autonomous navigation system of an autonomous surface vehicles (ASV)
The paper is organized as follows—in Section 2 the idea and theory of the radar used is presented; Section 3 gives the details of the anti-collision system concept together with the review of related works and papers; Section 4 provides a description of the research; and Section 5 includes the conclusions
Summary
Unmanned vehicle technology and surface robots have been rapidly developed over the past few years. The goal was to use the collected data to address the autonomous collision avoidance problem for future intelligent ASV systems This will be the basis for the implementation of such an innovative system for real-time ASV missions. It should be pointed out here, that the sensor and system proposed in this study is suitable for small ASVs performing their duties in inland water or in restricted harbor areas. The use cases covered by this research assume that the ASV is performing her autonomic mission (likely hydrographic, but can be any other), navigating in a lake, river or near-coast waters. The paper is organized as follows—in Section 2 the idea and theory of the radar used is presented; Section 3 gives the details of the anti-collision system concept together with the review of related works and papers; Section 4 provides a description of the research; and Section 5 includes the conclusions
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