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Enabling Under Ice Glider Operations: A Backseat Driver Approach

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polar Oceans are key locations for forcing global ocean circulation, influencing both global climate and biogeochemical cycles. Due to restricted access to these seasonally and perennially ice‐covered regions, these areas are severely undersampled.
Yaomei Wang, Benjamin Allsup, Georgios Salavasidis, Stephen Woodward, Adeniyi Adenaya, Mike Smart, Alexis Johnson, Felipe Marques Dos Santos, Jake Ludgate, Daniel Matterson, Alvaro Lorenzo, J. Alexander Brearley, Alexander Brian Phillips   +12 more
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A cooperative formation method for AUV swarm under directed communication constrains [PDF]

Zhihui kongzhi yu fangzhen
The formation movement of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) clusters has significant application value in underwater missions. To achieve efficient collaboration and formation movement of AUV clusters in underwater mission scenarios, this paper ...
LIU Hao, FAN Xibin, LI Dong
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Virtual Elastic Tether: A New Approach for Multi‐Agent Navigation in Confined Aquatic Environments

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Underwater navigation is a challenging area in the field of mobile robotics due to inherent constraints in self‐localization and communication in underwater environments. Some of these challenges can be mitigated by using collaborative multi‐agent teams.
Kanzhong Yao, Xueliang Cheng, Keir Groves, Barry Lennox, Ognjen Marjanovic, Simon Watson   +5 more
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AUV-Based Plume Tracking: A Simulation Study

Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2016
This paper presents a simulation study of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) navigation system operating in a GPS-denied environment. The AUV navigation method makes use of underwater transponder positioning and requires only one transponder.
Awantha Jayasiri, Raymond G. Gosine, George K. I. Mann, Peter McGuire   +3 more
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AUV Adaptive Sampling Methods: A Review

Applied Sciences, 2019
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are unmanned marine robots that have been used for a broad range of oceanographic missions. They are programmed to perform at various levels of autonomy, including autonomous behaviours and intelligent behaviours ...
Jimin Hwang, Neil Bose, Shuangshuang Fan
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Redefining Optimal Coverage Path Planning for FLS‐Equipped AUVs With Deep Reinforcement Learning

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have emerged as indispensable tools for a variety of subsea tasks, from habitat monitoring and seabed mapping to infrastructure inspection and mine countermeasures. A fundamental challenge in this field is Coverage Path Planning (CPP), the problem of ensuring complete and efficient area coverage.
Lorenzo Cecchi, Alberto Topini, Alessandro Bucci, Alessandro Ridolfi   +3 more
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Linear System Identification and Control of a Low‐Cost High‐Performance Omnidirectional Marine Surface Vehicle for Swarming Applications

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marine operations traditionally rely on human intervention, a costly and disruptive method. Autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) offer a powerful alternative, capable of operating autonomously, for extended periods, and with various sensors for various missions.
Ayman El Qemmah, Gianni Cario, Alessandro Casavola, Marco Lupia, Francesco Tedesco   +4 more
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Effectiveness Assessment of Underwater Area Cruise Based on the ADC Method

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Underwater area surveillance plays a crucial role in upholding national security, safeguarding strategic interests, and mitigating potential threats. Despite its significance, a notable gap persists in the availability of comprehensive models for assessing its effectiveness.
Qingwei Liang, Yuxin Lin, Mingyang Luo, Zhanghong Zeng   +3 more
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FLSea: Underwater Visual–Inertial and Stereovision Forward‐Looking Data Sets

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Visibility underwater is challenging and degrades as the distance between the subject and the camera increases. That is why forward‐looking underwater computer vision tasks are difficult. We have collected underwater forward‐looking stereovision and visual–inertial image sets using two underwater imaging platforms, a stereo camera rig, and an ...
Yelena Randall, Ori Lifschitz, Tali Treibitz   +2 more
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Deep learning‐based super‐resolution reconstruction and improved YOLOv9 for efficient benthos detection: a case study at Lake Hamana, Japan

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study presents a UAV‐based framework that integrates deep learning‐based super‐resolution reconstruction and an enhanced YOLO detector to improve centimetre‐scale benthic organism monitoring. Using hermit crabs in Lake Hamana, a coastal lagoon in Japan, as a case study, the method substantially enhanced small‐object detection performance ...
Fan Zhao, Bangzhang Ma, Dianhan Xi, Jiaqi Wang, Yijia Chen, Yongying Liu, Xinlei Shao, Mowen Zhang, Guocheng Zhang, Jundong Chen, Katsunori Mizuno   +10 more
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