Development Overview and Inspiration of Collaborative Application of Heterogeneous Unmanned Clusters at Sea

Abstract

Unmanned system clusters, with their significant characteristics such as high coordination, complete autonomy, and collective intelligence, can directly affect and change the style of maritime operations. Multiple maritime powers around the world are competing to conduct research on the collaborative application of cross-domain heterogeneous unmanned equipment. The current development status of maritime heterogeneous unmanned clusters in the world and typical operational cases were analyzed, and it was found that maritime heterogeneous unmanned clusters had the characteristics of self-organized network communication of cross-domain multi-heterogeneous nodes, multi-domain and multi-source information fusion situation awareness, and multi-domain and large-scale heterogeneous cluster formation control. Finally, it was proposed that maritime heterogeneous unmanned clusters should fuse manned and unmanned sensory information, refined intelligent decision-making, enhanced operation control simulation training, and construction of decentralized cluster systems.

Keywords

• cross domain heterogeneity
• unmanned cluster
• collaborative application