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Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have been widely used in the fields of marine scientific research and submarine exploration. However, the launch and recovery of these vehicles are considerably affected by sea waves, thereby making their operation complicated and dangerous; this is a challenging problem that restricts the successful operation of USVs. This study involved the development of an automated launch and recovery system (L&RS) for a USV. The proposed L&RS is composed of a catapult mechanism, stabilized platform mechanism and docking mechanism. To improve the success rate of the launch and recovery of a USV, the aiming angle of air projectile was calculated, and its validity was verified by simulation. From the results obtained considering a field application, it was confirmed that the developed L&RS could safely and efficiently recover a USV to its mother ship in an actual environment.
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This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61773254), Shanghai Sailing Program (Grant No.17YF1406200), Shanghai Young Eastern Scholar Program (Grant No. QD2016029), and Shanghai civil-military integration program (Grant No. JMRH-2018-1043).
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Zheng, S. et al. (2019). An Automated Launch and Recovery System for USVs Based on the Pneumatic Ejection Mechanism. In: Yu, H., Liu, J., Liu, L., Ju, Z., Liu, Y., Zhou, D. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11742. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27535-8_27
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