US Patent Issued to WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 15 for "Method and system for formation control for unmanned surface vessel swarm via collaborative exploration deep reinforcement learning (CEDRL)" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,152, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Wuhan, China).

"Method and system for formation control for unmanned surface vessel swarm via collaborative exploration deep reinforcement learning (CEDRL)" was invented by Yong Ma (Wuhan, China), Wenqi Wang (Wuhan, China), Yujiao Zhao (Wuhan, China), Hanluan Xiong (Wuhan, China) and Zizhuo Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method and system for formation control for an USV swarm via a CEDRL. The method includes: designing a desired formation pattern based on a formation hierarchical virtual leader strategy, es...