Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: A robotic boat is moving beten two points when it encounters an obstacle of unknown size. The boat must find a short path around the obstacle to resume its original course. How should the boat move when it can only sense the proximity of the obstacle, and does not have prior information about the obstacle's size?  study this problem for a robotic boat with a forward-facing sonar.  study two versions of the problem. First,  solve a simplified case when the obstacle is a rectangle of known orientation but unknown dimensions. Second,  study a more general case where an arbitrarily shaped obstacle is contained beten two known parallel lines.  study the performance of the algorithms analytically using competitive analysis and present results from field experiments. The experimental setup is relevant for harbor patrol or autonomous navigation in shallow water.
['Patrick A. Plonski', 'Joshua Vander Hook', 'Cheng Peng', 'Narges Noori', 'Volkan Isler']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Navigation around an unknown obstacle for autonomous surface vehicles using a forward-facing sonar
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