Review of research on unmanned underwater vehicle formation cooperative search
With the development of unmanned underwater vehicle(UUV)and related technologies,UUV has been widely used to perform tasks such as mine sweeping,reconnaissance,intelligence search and ocean exploration.Through the cooperation of multiple UUV formations,the weak points of single UUV in detecting and capturing targets with limited cap-abilities and low operational effectiveness can be overcome to meet the requirements of dealing with multiple complex tasks.As one of the key tasks of UUV formation cooperation,UUV formation cooperative search is an important direction of un-derwater cooperation research.In this paper,the research progress of application and methods of UUV formation cooperat-ive search is reviewed,and the challenges and application progress of UUV formation cooperative search are analyzed and discussed.The research results have certain reference significance for further development of underwater unmanned cluster collaboration in the future.