Smart Sensor Based Obstacle Detection for High-Speed Unmanned Surface Vehicle

Dan Hermann; Roberto Galeazzi; Jens Christian Andersen; Mogens Blanke

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.10.279

Smart Sensor Based Obstacle Detection for High-Speed Unmanned Surface Vehicle

Dan Hermann, Roberto Galeazzi, Jens Christian Andersen, Mogens Blanke

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This paper describes an obstacle detection system for a high-speed and agile unmanned surface vehicle (USV), running at speeds up to 30 m/s. The aim is a real-time and high performance obstacle detection system using both radar and vision technologies to detect obstacles within a range of 175 m. A computer vision horizon detector enables a highly accurate attitude estimation despite large and sudden vehicle accelerations. This further facilitates the reduction of sea clutter by utilising a attitude based statistical measure. Full scale sea trials show a significant increase in obstacle tracking performance using sensor fusion of radar and computer vision.

Original language	English
Book series	I F A C Workshop Series
Volume	48
Issue number	16
Pages (from-to)	190–197
ISSN	1474-6670
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.10.279
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	10th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft - DTU, Lyngby, Denmark Duration: 24 Aug 2015 → 26 Aug 2015 Conference number: 10 http://www.mcmc2015.dk/

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Conference	10th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft
Number	10
Location	DTU
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Lyngby
Period	24/08/2015 → 26/08/2015
Internet address	http://www.mcmc2015.dk/

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Obstacle detection
Sensor fusion
Unmanned surface vehicle

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