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A Real-time Motion Planning Algorithm for AUV based on IDVD Method

水下无人系统学报
To enhance the intelligence of autonomous undersea vehicles(AUVs), this paper proposed a real-time motion planning algorithm based on the inverse dynamic virtual domain(IDVD) method, ensuring safe navigation in unknown environments with obstacles.
Guoshun LIU, Wei GUO, Yanjun LAN, Yifan FU   +3 more
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Research on the Influence of Turbulent Flow Induced by Dunes on AUVs

Applied Sciences, 2023
The demand for oceanic resource exploration and development is increasing, and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have emerged as potential tools for ocean exploration.
Yu Guo, Peng Li, Hongde Qin, Zhongyu Lin, Jiaqi Guo   +4 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-Underwater Target Interception Strategy Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

水下无人系统学报
In the context of multiple autonomous undersea vehicles(AUVs) executing underwater target interception missions, AUVs are required to make precise decisions based on both enemy and partner information, navigating the dual challenges of competition and ...
Wenhao GAN, Yunfei PENG, Lei QIAO
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Integrated navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles in aquaculture: A review

Information Processing in Agriculture, 2020
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing sector within the food industry, supplying humans with over half their aquatic products. Water quality monitoring or cage inspection is an indispensable part in aquaculture and is usually done manually ...
Jianhua Bao, Daoliang Li, Xi Qiao, Thomas Rauschenbach   +3 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Hierarchical formation control technology for multiple autonomous underwater vehicles

IET Smart Grid
The employment of multiple AUVs is to perform missions while maintaining a geometric formation designated. In this paper, communication mechanism based on blackboard is introduced to support cooperation between AUVs, messages are typed according to ...
Shibo Fan, Jie Jiao, Pengfeng Lin, Qingzuo Meng   +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
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Potential of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Microplastic Detection in Marine Environments: A Systematic Review

Drones
AUVs offer the potential for in situ MP detection at constant, pre-set depths in marine environments. By carrying onboard MP detectors, AUVs can serve as alternatives to traditional methods of sample collection, processing, and analysis, while also ...
Qian Zhong, Neil Bose, Jimin Hwang, Ting Zou   +3 more
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Modified constrained adaptive formation control scheme for autonomous underwater vehicles under communication delays

IET Cyber-systems and Robotics, 2019
The performance of a formation control algorithm for a group of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) may be degraded due to communication constraints between the leader and the follower AUVs.
Chhavi Suryendu, Bidyadhar Subudhi
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