CurviTrack: Curvilinear Trajectory Tracking for High-speed Chase of a USV

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Autori principali: Gupta, Parakh M., Procházka, Ondřej, Nascimento, Tiago, Saska, Martin
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Gupta, Parakh M.
Procházka, Ondřej
Nascimento, Tiago
Saska, Martin
author_facet Gupta, Parakh M.
Procházka, Ondřej
Nascimento, Tiago
Saska, Martin
contents Heterogeneous robot teams used in marine environments incur time-and-energy penalties when the marine vehicle has to halt the mission to allow the autonomous aerial vehicle to land for recharging. In this paper, we present a solution for this problem using a novel drag-aware model formulation which is coupled with MPC, and therefore, enables tracking and landing during high-speed curvilinear trajectories of an USV without any communication. Compared to the state-of-the-art, our approach yields 40% decrease in prediction errors, and provides a 3-fold increase in certainty of predictions. Consequently, this leads to a 30% improvement in tracking performance and 40% higher success in landing on a moving USV even during aggressive turns that are unfeasible for conventional marine missions. We test our approach in two different real-world scenarios with marine vessels of two different sizes and further solidify our results through statistical analysis in simulation to demonstrate the robustness of our method.
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spellingShingle CurviTrack: Curvilinear Trajectory Tracking for High-speed Chase of a USV
Gupta, Parakh M.
Procházka, Ondřej
Nascimento, Tiago
Saska, Martin
Robotics
Systems and Control
Heterogeneous robot teams used in marine environments incur time-and-energy penalties when the marine vehicle has to halt the mission to allow the autonomous aerial vehicle to land for recharging. In this paper, we present a solution for this problem using a novel drag-aware model formulation which is coupled with MPC, and therefore, enables tracking and landing during high-speed curvilinear trajectories of an USV without any communication. Compared to the state-of-the-art, our approach yields 40% decrease in prediction errors, and provides a 3-fold increase in certainty of predictions. Consequently, this leads to a 30% improvement in tracking performance and 40% higher success in landing on a moving USV even during aggressive turns that are unfeasible for conventional marine missions. We test our approach in two different real-world scenarios with marine vessels of two different sizes and further solidify our results through statistical analysis in simulation to demonstrate the robustness of our method.
title CurviTrack: Curvilinear Trajectory Tracking for High-speed Chase of a USV
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21303