Maritime Buoyage Inspection System Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Active Disturbance Rejection Control

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 9; pp. 22883 - 22893
• Main Authors: Li, Baoying, Gao, Sheng, Li, Chen, Wan, He
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Active control; active disturbance rejection control; Autonomous underwater vehicles; Beacons; buoy inspection; Buoys; continuous hopfield neural network; Control systems design; genetic algorithm; Genetic algorithms; Heuristic algorithms; Inspection; Neural networks; Rejection; Trajectory; Trajectory planning; Trajectory tracking; Transfer functions; Unmanned aerial vehicle; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Weather

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is inexpensive and offers a fast response speed and robust flexibility; thus, it is a promising tool in the maritime buoyage inspection scenario, which involves monitoring and accessing a lateral mark system far away from the coast. However, two main problems can oc...