Meander Based River Coverage by an Autonomous Surface Vehicle

摘要: Autonomous coverage has tremendous importance for environmental surveying and exploration tasks performed on rivers both in terms of efficiency data collection quality. Most surveys are manually using quite similar approaches. Using these practices to automate processes improves the quality survey operations. In addition human expertise type patterns,the a river can be optimized meanders determine direction coverage. this work we use implicit information speed water current, inferred from curves river, reduce cost cover-age. We autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) deploy proposed methods demonstrate our method. compare method with previous techniques developed lab. When taking into account time been decreased average by more than 20%. The deployments ASVs were Congaree River, SC,USA, resulted 27km total trajectories.