Prototype Design and Experimental Evaluation of Autonomous Collaborative Communication System for Emerging Maritime Use Cases

Automated systems have been seamlessly integrated into several industries as part of their industrial automation processes. Employing automated systems, such as autonomous vehicles, allows industries to increase productivity, benefit from a wide range of technologies and capabilities, and improve wo...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2021-06, Vol.21 (11), p.3871
Main Authors: Pokorny, Jiri, Ma, Khanh, Saafi, Salwa, Frolka, Jakub, Villa, Jose, Gerasimenko, Mikhail, Koucheryavy, Yevgeni, Hosek, Jiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Antennas
Automation
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Autonomous vehicles
Collaboration
collaborative communication system
Communications systems
directional wireless links
Drones
Evacuations & rescues
Maritime industry
maritime use cases
Remote monitoring
Surface vehicles
UAV
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Unmanned vehicles
USV
Wireless communications
Wireless networks
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Summary:Automated systems have been seamlessly integrated into several industries as part of their industrial automation processes. Employing automated systems, such as autonomous vehicles, allows industries to increase productivity, benefit from a wide range of technologies and capabilities, and improve workplace safety. So far, most of the existing systems consider utilizing one type of autonomous vehicle. In this work, we propose a collaboration of different types of unmanned vehicles in maritime offshore scenarios. Providing high capacity, extended coverage, and better quality of services, autonomous collaborative systems can enable emerging maritime use cases, such as remote monitoring and navigation assistance. Motivated by these potential benefits, we propose the deployment of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in an autonomous collaborative communication system. Specifically, we design high-speed, directional communication links between a terrestrial control station and the two unmanned vehicles. Using measurement and simulation results, we evaluate the performance of the designed links in different communication scenarios and we show the benefits of employing multiple autonomous vehicles in the proposed communication system.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s21113871