Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicle Coverage Control in Dynamic Environments

This paper investigates the area coverage problem for multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) in dynamic environments. Multiple USVs are employed to execute the coverage task using the Voronoi Partition method for task allocation. Parameter adaptive laws are employed to estimate the parameters of the sensing function and the Voronoi cell centroids for updating the target positions in dynamic environments. Additionally, considering the influence of water surface disturbances, a nonholonomic underactuated model analysis is conducted for the USV under non-full constraints, resulting in a motion strategy for USVs. This enables the multiple USVs to effectively cover the task area. Finally, simulation results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the coverage scheme designed in this paper and the ability of USVs to effectively cover dynamic environments.