Following the persistent evolution of terrestrial 5G wireless systems, a new field of underwater communication has emerged for various related applications like environmental monitoring, underwater mining, and marine research. However, establishing r...
Efficient and timely data collection in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) for Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) applications remains a significant challenge due to the inherent limitations of the underwater environment. This paper presen...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) play a central role in marine observation, inspection, and monitoring missions, where effective trajectory planning is essential for ensuring safe operation, reliable sensing, and efficient data transfer. In real...
Autonomous underwater vehicle is an effective tool for humans to explore the ocean. It can be used for the monitoring of underwater structures and facilities, which puts forward more accurate and stable requirements for the system operation of the au...
Development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has permitted the automatization of many tasks originally achieved with manned vehicles in underwater environments. Teams of AUVs designed to work within a common mission are opening the possibilit...
Collaborative search with multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) significantly enhances search efficiency compared to the use of a single AUV, facilitating the rapid completion of extensive search tasks. However, challenges arise in underwate...
This study presents the redesign of an existing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with limited maneuverability, transforming it into a platform optimized for autonomous, near-seabed visual imaging missions. This work describes the enhancement of th...
An autonomous underwater hovering vehicle (AUH) is a novel, dish-shaped, axisymmetric, multi-functional, ultra-mobile submersible in the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) family. Numerical studies of nonlinear, asymmetric water entry impact forces...
Acoustic monitoring of low-noise underwater sources is challenging for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in shallow water, where waveguide variability and platform self-noise reduce source detectability. This paper presents the design concept of...
Autonomous navigation in unknown; map-free environments is a core requirement for advanced robotics. While significant breakthroughs have been achieved in terrestrial scenarios, extending this capability to the unstructured, dynamic, and harsh underw...
Underwater acoustic communication is a key point for performance improvement in an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) swarm. The communication process is essential for improving the AUVs localization accuracy for navigation and is a convenient way f...
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used in marine exploration and underwater operations, where unexpected thruster faults may hinder mission execution and compromise operational safety. Therefore, efficient and reliable fault diag...
A dynamic distributed target hunting method is proposed for the problem of distributed moving target hunting by multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). By integrating the improved Dynamic Window Approach (DWA) with the Rapidly-exploring Rando...
The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) holds significant promise for developing a smart ocean. In recent years, there has been swift progress in data collection methods using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) within underwater acoustic sensor n...
With the advancement of artificial intelligence, the inference capabilities of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have significantly improved, leading to growing interest in AUV applications. To ensure reliable operations, the field of underwater...
Following the development of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), multiple trajectory-based submarine target information collection constitutes one of the key technologies that significantly influence underwater information collection ability and d...
Aiming at the underwater docking process of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and conical docking bay, this paper systematically analyzes the influence of docking geometry parameters and ocean current conditions on hydrodynamic characteristics....
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), as primary platforms, have significantly contributed to underwater surveys in scientific and military fields. Enhancing the maneuverability of autonomous underwater vehicles is crucial to their development. This...
In underwater sensor networks, nodes are usually sparsely arranged, and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are often used to collect data by moving. However, it is a key problem for AUVs to shorten the path as much as possible to guarantee whole-n...
The use of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to inspect underwater industrial infrastructure requires the precise, coordinated movement of the AUV relative to subsea objects. One significant underwater infrastructure system is the subsea product...
For underwater target exploration, multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have shown significant advantages over single AUVs. Aiming at Multi-AUV task allocation, which is an important issue for collaborative work in underwater environments,...
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) play a critical role in underwater remote sensing and monitoring applications. This paper addresses the problem of navigating multiple AUVs to perform sweep video sensing of unknown underwater regions over uneven...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) play a critical role in ocean exploration. However, due to the inherent limitations of most sensors in underwater environments, achieving accurate navigation and localization in complex underwater scenarios remai...
Real-time command and data transfer are essential for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) motion control in underwater missions. Due to the limitations of underwater acoustic communication, which has a low data rate, this paper introduces a new contr...
This paper conducts a numerical investigation on the hydrodynamic performance of a portable autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The portable AUV is designed to cruise and perform some tasks autonomously in the underwater world. However, its dynamic...
Autonomous underwater cleaning in water pools requires reliable perception, efficient coverage path planning, and robust control. However, existing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) cleaning systems often suffer from fragmented software frameworks...
Multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have gradually become the trend in underwater operations. Identifying and detecting these new underwater multi-targets is difficult when studying underwater moving targets. A 28-element transducer is use...
Hybrid underwater robotic vehicles integrate features typically found in separate classes of vehicles: autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), amphibious robots, and cross-medium robotic vehicles. We review this fiel...
Docking technology for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) involves energy supply, data exchange and navigation, and plays an important role to extend the endurance of the AUVs. The navigation method used in the transition between AUV homing and do...
Due to the precarious underwater environment, many tasks are impossible to carry out with manned vehicles. It is due to the development of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that exploration, surveillance, and research have been carried out like n...
This paper proposes a centralized MTT method based on a state-of-the-art multi-sensor labeled multi-Bernoulli (LMB) filter in underwater multi-static networks with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The LMB filter can accurately extract the numbe...
This study presents the development of a conceptual model for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) information and control system (ICS) tailored for the mineral and raw materials complex (MRMC). To address the challenges of underwater mineral explo...
This paper attempts to develop a unified model predictive control (MPC) method for integrated path planning and trajectory tracking of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). To deal with the computational burden of online path planning, an event-trig...
To make an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) chase a moving target ship that generates wake, wake-responsive guidance can be used. This scenario is applicable to making an underwater torpedo pursue a moving target ship until hitting the target. The...
This paper addresses an autonomous navigation method for the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) C-Ranger applying information-filter-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and its sea trial experiments in Tuandao Bay (Shangdong Province...
In this paper, a hybrid realization model is proposed for the controllers of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). This model is based on the model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methodology, in combination with the model-driven architecture (MDA)...
The purpose of this paper is to present the design, development and testing of an innovative instrument called GraviMob, which allows performing dynamic measurements of underwater gravity anomalies. After recalling the interest in underwater gravimet...
With the development of ocean exploration technology, the exploration of the ocean has become a hot research field involving the use of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). In complex underwater environments, the fast, safe, and smooth arrival of t...
The underwater docking of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is conducive to energy supply and data exchange. A vision-based high-precision estimation of “the positions and poses of an AUV relative to a docking station” (PPARD) is a ne...
To autonomously explore complex underwater environments, it is convenient to develop motion planning strategies that do not depend on prior information. In this publication, we present a robotic exploration algorithm for autonomous underwater vehicle...
To date, the development of unmanned technologies using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has become an urgent demand for solving the problem of inspecting industrial subsea structures. A key issue here is the precise localization of AUVs relativ...
With the rapid advancement of the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology, the collaboration of several autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in large-scale seafloor imaging has become a trending topic. Electromagnetic waves are diffi...
Currently, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are facing various challenges, rendering multiple-AUV (multi-AUV) formation control a pivotal research direction. The issues surrounding formation control for a multi-AUV system to establish time-varyi...
Effective communication between multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is necessary for formation control. As the most reliable underwater communication method, acoustic communication still has many constraints compared with radio communicati...
Effective path planning in complex underwater environments serves as a critical determinant of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUVs) energy efficiency, while simultaneously influencing sensor operational demands and battery state-of-charge (SOC) dynam...
As marine activities expand, deploying underwater autonomous vehicles (AUVs) becomes critical. Efficiently navigating these AUVs through intricate underwater terrains is vital. This paper proposes a sophisticated motion-planning algorithm integrating...
This paper addresses the challenges of intent recognition in collaborative Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) search missions, where multiple AUVs must coordinate effectively despite environmental uncertainties and communication limitations. We prop...
This paper proposes a 1000 W high-frequency three-phase power inversion underwater capacitive wireless power transfer (UCWPT) system for power delivery to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The multi-phase coupling structure is designed as a colu...
As marine plastic pollution threatens the marine ecosystem seriously, the government needs to find an effective way to clean marine plastics. Due to the advantages of easy operation and high efficiency, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have been...
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) play a pivotal role in the exploration and monitoring of the sea floor. A primary challenge in surveying AUVs is consistently obtaining high-quality optical imagery data. A major cause of quality reduction is tur...
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