A Centralized Architecture for Cooperative Air-Sea Vehicles Using UAV-USV

This paper deals with the problem of monitoring and
cleaning dirty zones of oceans using unmanned vehicles. We present
a centralized cooperative architecture for unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) to monitor ocean regions and clean dirty zones with the help
of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Due to the rapid deployment
of these unmanned vehicles, it is convenient to use them in oceanic
regions where the water pollution zones are generally unknown. In
order to optimize this process, our solution aims to detect and reduce
the pollution level of the ocean zones while taking into account the
problem of fault tolerance related to these vehicles.




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