An overview of developments and challenges for unmanned surface vehicle autonomous berthing

Abstract

With the continuous progress of contemporary science and technology and the increasing requirements for marine vehicles in various fields, the intelligence and automation of ships have become a general trend. The autonomous control of surface Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) generally covers the USV path planning, path tracking control, and autonomous collision avoidance control. But in the whole navigation process of USV, autonomous berthing is also a crucial part. And the research on the algorithm of the automatic berthing process of the USV is less. Mature USV autonomous berthing technology can effectively reduce the cost of human and material resources and financial resources while reducing the accident rate reasonably and safely. Therefore, it is of great importance to comprehensively promote the development of USV autonomous berthing technology.

A Bibliometric Analysis and Overall Review of the New Technology and Development of Unmanned Surface Vessels

“…For example, Yuanchang Liu stood out as a pivotal figure within his group and had a substantial network of 22 collaboration links in the broader global research field. Similarly, authors such as Bo Wang (7), Yan Peng (10) and Yuqing He (12) took prominent roles within their respective groups. Further, at an individual level, with average publication year, it is noteworthy that the most recently active authors in USV included Bo Wang (2022), Peng Jiang (2021.5), Xinyu Zhang (2021) and Yulei Liao (2020).…”

“…It is pa understood that France, Spain, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates have the age latest publication year, showing that they have done much work in the past 3 whereas the USA (the United States), Canada and Japan, have published most of t pers 6 years ago, and still need to carry on researching new technology in the futur The international collaboration network reveals the presence of four primary clusters. Notably, China emerged as the most active collaborator, with the strongest link (10) established with England. It can also be inferred that Chinese researchers were currently responsible for the majority of document productions, as indicated by the color-coded data, and their collaborative network extended prominently at the international level.…”

“…Despite increasingly growing interest in USVs, there is a lack of a systematic overview of solutions proposed in the scientific literature. Among exemplary review articles, there are a few focused on challenge analysis [2,10,11], collision avoidance methods [12][13][14], path planning [14][15][16] and control and autonomy [17,18]. However, according to the search results of WoS, there is a notable absence of a systematic literature review and featured bibliometric analysis regarding USVs in the context of the new technology applied in automation development, with a specific emphasis on assessing the development of the automation and future developments.…”