Methods, systems, and computer-readable media that implement autonomous seagoing power replenishment watercraft. An example system includes a plurality of marine vessels; a plurality of watercraft, each watercraft of the plurality of watercraft including a rechargeable electrical power supply and being configured to operate in: a first mode in which the watercraft awaits an assignment to provide electrical energy to a marine vessel of the plurality of marine vessels; a second mode in which the watercraft performs operations including keeping station with an assigned marine vessel and providing electrical energy to the assigned marine vessel from the power supply; and a third mode in which the watercraft recharges the power supply from a charging station. The system includes a controller configured to perform operations comprising: transmitting, to a first watercraft, an instruction indicating an assignment of the first watercraft to provide electrical energy to a first marine vessel.

A remote-controlled, semi-autonomous or autonomous recovery apparatus includes a drive as well as a unit for launch and recovery of an autonomous underwater vehicle. The drive is dimensioned such that a large range, such as more than 5 nautical miles, is obtained.

Disclosed are a self-righting unmanned ship suitable for adverse sea conditions and a self-righting working mode thereof, belonging to the field of unmanned ship equipment and techniques. The unmanned ship comprises a main hull, a self-righting deck, an equipment and pipeline mast, a propeller, a radar, an air inlet and exhaust system, and a main engine system. Through the design of a watertight deck, the hull of the unmanned ship has a self-righting function, avoiding the possibility of the unmanned ship itself turning over, without installing additional self-righting equipment. Meanwhile, the internal structure and the self-righting working mode of the unmanned ship make it possible for the hull to automatically turn off the main engine and the air inlet and exhaust system when the heeling angle of the hull exceeds a certain angle, making the whole ship watertight.

The present invention relates to a submerged-floating type water house. The house comprises: a first lower side part and a second lower side part formed symmetrically with respect to each other; a first upper side part and a second upper side part formed symmetrically and extending from the first lower side part and the second lower side part; and a front part and a rear part formed in front of and in back of the first lower side part and second lower side part and the first upper side part and second upper side part, thereby forming a rhombic-shaped body and floating in water.

A method and system for controlling multi-unmanned surface vessel (USV) collaborative search are disclosed which relate to the technical field of the marine intelligent USV collaborative operation. The method includes determining a task region of a USV team; determining environmental perception information corresponding to each of the USVs at the current moment according to the task region and the probability graph mode; inputting the environmental perception information corresponding to each of the USVs at the current moment into the corresponding target search strategy output model respectively to obtain an execution action of each of the USVs at the next moment; sending the execution action of each of the USVs at the next moment to a corresponding USV execution structure to search for underwater targets within the task region. The target search strategy output model is obtained by training based on a training sample and a DDQN network structure.

A method of controlling a vessel along an inland waterway is presented that includes receiving sensor data including geographic location data from a plurality of sensors on the vessel; providing sensor data to edge nodes, the one or more edge nodes associated with the geographic location of the vessel; receiving tiled data from the one or more edge nodes; determining operating parameters to perform a mission task based on tiled data from the one or more edge nodes and the sensor data, the tiled data associated with the geographical position of the vessel, the tiled data including data associated with feature objects within the geographic area associated with the tiled data; determining control signals from the operating parameters; and providing control signals to a vessel control array to control vessel heading and speed according to the control signals.

A system includes a memory device and a processing device. The processing device is operatively coupled to the memory device to perform operations, including receiving a set of data associated with operation of a self-propelled vehicle, obtaining power demand data based on the set of data, and utilizing the power demand data within one or more applications related to the self-propelled vehicle.

Autonomously piloting a sea-faring vessel traveling on a pre-defined course at a nominal speed includes: measuring a slamming parameter of the vessel; determining that the slamming parameter is outside an acceptable range; and autonomously decreasing the speed of the vessel until the slamming parameter is within the acceptable range, thereby causing the vessel to enter a reduced-speed mode.

A hierarchical data acquisition system and method applied to a marine information network are provided. Multiple sensor nodes are arranged in clusters, each of the clusters includes a cluster head node and multiple ordinary nodes. The multiple ordinary nodes acquire data information of a seafloor and transmit the acquired data information to the cluster head node, and the cluster head node aggregate the data and transmits the aggregated data to an autonomous underwater vehicle, reducing energy consumption of each of the sensor nodes, prolonging service lives of sensors of a data acquisition layer, and improving data acquisition efficiency of a data acquisition layer. In addition, after each of data acquisition periods, a sensor node in each of the clusters is selected as a cluster head node in a next data acquisition cycle. Cluster head nodes are continuously updated in cycles.

The present invention is broadly directed to an unmanned surface vessel (USV) 10 broadly comprising: 1. a vessel body (12) adapted to contain a payload (14); 2. a front fin (16) and a rear fin (18) connected to and protruding from the vessel body (12); 3. a forward foil (20) and a rearward foil (22) connected to a distal end region of the respective front and rear fins (16) and (18); 4. propulsion means (24) operatively coupled to the rear fin (18) for propulsion of the fin (18) and the foil (22) through the water.