Extended Abstract: Intelligent Position Anchoring for Collaborative Unmanned Surface-Aerial Vehicle

Abstract

The collaboration of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for offshore inspections heavily depends on a relative localization system. For inspection data, it needs to be tied to an absolute coordinate of an offshore asset. The missing of an absolute coordinate system for inspection data related to the offshore asset may cause future monitoring or repair works to become tedious and time-consuming since precise locations are unknown. An approach to identify the origin of an absolute coordinate based on intelligent object recognition is proposed. However, ongoing works are still in progress and the results in terms of the performance and reliability of the proposed approach have not yet been established. Nevertheless, further strategies for anchoring the USV and UAV to an offshore asset have been discussed in this paper.