Collaborative Marine Robotics: Exploring Scenarios with NauSim and YOLO
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https://doi.org/10.17979/ja-cea.2025.46.12260Keywords:
Simulation, Unmanned marine vehicles, Multi-vehicle systems, Sensors and actuators, Robot Navigation, Programming and VisionAbstract
This work presents the results of tests with NauSim, an open source simulator for waterborne drones, together with the YOLO computer vision system in the context of collaborative robotics for the control and positioning of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Control algorithms for tasks such as formations, route following and obstacle avoidance are developed and tested in simulation and real scenarios. The results show remarkable overall system performance and good correspondence between simulation and reality, supporting the feasibility of the proposed system.
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