arXiv Machine Learning

IoT-Enabled Autonomous Maritime Navigation in Smart Ports: A Curriculum-Guided Shared Policy Learning Framework

arXiv:2608. 11597v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As smart port infrastructures increasingly rely on autonomous maritime devices enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring reliable onboard navigation intelligence has become a critical challenge for safe and scalable operations in congested waterways.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3

ASVSim (AirSim for Surface Vehicles): A High-Fidelity Simulation Framework for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Research

arXiv:2506. 22174v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The transport industry has recently shown significant interest in unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), specifically for port and inland waterway transport.

By Bavo Lesy, Siemen Herremans, Robin Kerstens, Jan Steckel, Walter Daems, Siegfried Mercelis, Ali Anwar
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Exploring LLM Capabilities for Situational Understanding and COLREG compliance on real-world maritime navigation scenarios

arXiv:2608. 08281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown considerable capability for situational understanding, reasoning, and decision making in different domains, most notable in the automotive sector.

By Julius Wirbel, P. Nicholas Hansen, Line K. H. Clemmensen, Roberto Galeazzi
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Lightweight Safe Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End UAV Navigation

arXiv:2607. 01794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid development of autonomous aerial systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in applications such as inspection, environmental monitoring, and rescue, creating growing demand for reliable autonomous navigation.

By Shenghui Zhang, YuXuan Gao, Songwei Zhao, Jifeng Hu, Zijing Zhang, Hechang Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning for Safe and Ethical Autonomous Vehicles: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities

arXiv:2408. 12548v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) has become central to Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), supporting perception, prediction, planning, control, and decision-making in dynamic environments.

By Yousef Emami, Mohammadhossein Homaei, Miguel Guti\'errez Gait\'an, Luis Almeida, Kai Li, Hui Huang, Zhu Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

TRUAV: Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory Planning and Routing Enhancement in UAV-Aided IoT-Enabled VANETs

arXiv:2607. 23734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler of next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems, offering flexible aerial relaying to extend connectivity across dynamic vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in smart city environments.

By Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar, Lin Zhang, Zhen Chen, Wajdy Othman, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, Chang Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Contextual Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Reef Monitoring

arXiv:2604. 12645v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although autonomous underwater vehicles promise the capability of marine ecosystem monitoring, their deployment is fundamentally limited by the difficulty of controlling vehicles under highly uncertain and non-stationary underwater dynamics.

By Melvin Laux, Yi-Ling Liu, Rina Alo, S\"oren T\"opper, Mariela De Lucas Alvarez, Frank Kirchner, Rebecca Adam