crossrefJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2025-04-24Cited by 6
Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance for USV in Autonomous Buoy Inspection: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Jianhui Wang, Zhiqiang Lu, Xunjie Hong, Zeye Wu, Weihua Li
To address the challenges of manual buoy inspection, this study enhances a previously proposed Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) inspection system by improving its navigation and obstacle avoidance capabilities using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). For improved usability, the en…