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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,970 Views
22 Pages

Novel Design and Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis of a Foldable Hybrid Aerial Underwater Vehicle

  • Guangrong Chen,
  • Lei Yan,
  • Ao Cao,
  • Xinyuan Zhu and ,
  • Hongbo Ding and
  • Yuxiang Lin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 November 2024

Hybrid Aerial Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs), capable of operating effectively in both aerial and underwater environments, offer promising solutions for a wide range of applications. This paper presents the design and development of a novel foldable win...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Design, Manufacturing, and Dynamics of Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,487 Views
19 Pages

A Low-Cost Variable Buoyancy System for Hybrid Aerial Underwater Vehicle

  • Zhou Yang,
  • Shuibo Hu,
  • Qiusheng Wang and
  • Guofeng Wu

29 August 2025

This paper presents a low-cost variable buoyancy system (VBS) that can be integrated into Hybrid Aerial Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs). HAUVs are widely used in scientific research and must be lightweight and highly maneuverable to ensure sufficient end...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,487 Views
17 Pages

23 September 2025

Hybrid Aerial Underwater Vehicle (HAUV) is a new type of unmanned system that can operate both in air and water, and complete underwater and air operations tasks by carrying corresponding sensors. Owing to this dual-medium operational capability, HAU...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Drones in Hydrological Research and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,996 Views
30 Pages

8 November 2021

Hybrid aerial underwater vehicles (HAUV) are a new frontier for vehicles. They can operate both underwater and aerially, providing enormous potential for a wide range of scientific explorations. Informative path planning is essential to vehicle auton...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Motion Control of Unmanned Aerial/Underwater Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,667 Views
18 Pages

16 February 2022

In recent years, hybrid unmanned aerial underwater vehicles (HAUVs), which are capable of air–water trans-media motion, have been increasingly developed. For most HAUVs, air–water trans–media motion is a relatively dangerous and dif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Deep-Sea Equipment and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,157 Views
25 Pages

27 November 2024

Hybrid aerial underwater vehicles (HAUVs) have shown broad development prospects for rapid emergency response and marine scientific observation at the sea–air interface in recent decades. The trans-media motion control problem of HAUV is a spec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unmanned Marine Vehicles: Perception, Planning, Control and Swarm)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,083 Views
34 Pages

Quaternion-Based Fast SMC–PD Cross-Domain Tracking Control for Coaxial Hybrid Aerial–Underwater Vehicle Under Oceanic Disturbances

  • Mingqing Lu,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Fei Liao,
  • Shichong Wu and ,
  • Yumin Su and
  • Wenhua Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 January 2025

In this study, nonsingular modeling and cross-domain trajectory tracking control problems for a special class of coaxial hybrid aerial–underwater vehicles (HAUVs) are investigated. Coaxial HAUVs need to effectively overcome the influence of hyd...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Guidance and Control of Marine Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,433 Views
20 Pages

11 September 2023

The variation in aerodynamic parameters during the process of a variable sweepback hybrid aerial underwater vehicle (HAUV) affects flight stability. During the air–water trans-media locomotion, there are medium mutations and solid–liquid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Implementation of Underwater Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,877 Views
22 Pages

Conceptualising a Hybrid Flying and Diving Craft

  • Keith F. Joiner and
  • Ahmed A. Swidan

This paper introduces the conceptual design of a submersible seaplane that merges the maturity of the wing-in-ground (WIG or ekranoplan) crafts and seaplanes with covert hybrid underwater insertion, travel, and recovery. WIG crafts have a higher lift...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,249 Views
20 Pages

HAUV-USV Collaborative Operation System for Hydrological Monitoring

  • Qiusheng Wang,
  • Shuibo Hu,
  • Zhou Yang and
  • Guofeng Wu

Research in marine hydrographic environmental monitoring continues to deepen, necessitating a hardware platform capable of traversing air–water interfaces to collect vertical gradient parameters across oceanographic profiles. This paper propose...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,663 Views
25 Pages

Adaptive Finite-Time Trajectory Tracking Control for Coaxial HAUVs Facing Uncertainties and Unknown Environmental Disturbances

  • Mingqing Lu,
  • Fei Liao,
  • Beibei Xing,
  • Zhaolin Fan and ,
  • Yumin Su and
  • Wenhua Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 July 2023

In this paper, the problems of system design, dynamic modeling, and trajectory tracking control of coaxial hybrid aerial underwater vehicles (HAUVs) with time-varying model parameters and composite marine environment disturbances are investigated. It...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Implementation of Underwater Vehicles)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,420 Views
8 Pages

Configuration Design and Trans-Media Control Status of the Hybrid Aerial Underwater Vehicles

  • Zongcheng Ma,
  • Danqiang Chen,
  • Guoshuai Li,
  • Xianyong Jing and
  • Shuchen Xiao

13 January 2022

Hybrid aerial underwater vehicles (HAUV) are newly borne vehicle concepts, which could fly in the air, navigate underwater, and cross the air-water surface repeatedly. Although there are many problems to be solved, the advanced concept, which combine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bionic Design and Manufacturing of Innovative Aircraft)
  • Article
  • Open Access
588 Views
38 Pages

This study presents a simulation-based multiphysics design, modeling, and adaptive control framework for a dual-propulsion unmanned aerial underwater vehicle intended for aerial, near-surface, and fully submerged operation. The proposed platform uses...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,060 Views
21 Pages

Novel Hybrid Aquatic–Aerial Vehicle to Survey in High Sea States: Initial Flow Dynamics on Dive and Breach

  • Matthew J. Ericksen,
  • Keith F. Joiner,
  • Nicholas J. Lawson,
  • Andrew Truslove and ,
  • Georgia Warren,
  • Jisheng Zhao and
  • Ahmed Swidan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Few studies have examined Hybrid Aquatic–Aerial Vehicles (HAAVs), autonomous vehicles designed to operate in both air and water, especially those that are aircraft-launched and recovered, with a variable-sweep design to free dive into a body of...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
395 Views
32 Pages

1 October 2026

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...

(This article belongs to the Section Unmanned Surface and Underwater Drones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,399 Views
33 Pages

RBFNN-Based Adaptive Fixed-Time Sliding Mode Tracking Control for Coaxial Hybrid Aerial–Underwater Vehicles Under Multivariant Ocean Disturbances

  • Mingqing Lu,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Zhenyu Xiong,
  • Fei Liao and ,
  • Shichong Wu,
  • Yumin Su and
  • Wenhua Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 December 2024

In this study, the design of an adaptive neural network-based fixed-time control system for a novel coaxial trans-domain hybrid aerial–underwater vehicle (HAUV) is investigated. A radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) approximation strat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Autonomous Underwater Drones)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
151 Citations
13,480 Views
38 Pages

A Consolidated Review of Path Planning and Optimization Techniques: Technical Perspectives and Future Directions

  • Faiza Gul,
  • Imran Mir,
  • Laith Abualigah,
  • Putra Sumari and
  • Agostino Forestiero

13 September 2021

In this paper, a review on the three most important communication techniques (ground, aerial, and underwater vehicles) has been presented that throws light on trajectory planning, its optimization, and various issues in a summarized way. This kind of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Technologies for Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
13,475 Views
25 Pages

A Survey of Trajectory Planning Techniques for Autonomous Systems

  • Imran Mir,
  • Faiza Gul,
  • Suleman Mir,
  • Mansoor Ahmed Khan and ,
  • Nasir Saeed,
  • Laith Abualigah,
  • Belal Abuhaija and
  • Amir H. Gandomi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 September 2022

This work offers an overview of the effective communication techniques for space exploration of ground, aerial, and underwater vehicles. We not only comprehensively summarize the trajectory planning, space exploration, optimization, and other challen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics Using Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,077 Views
22 Pages

16 August 2023

The development of hybrid unmanned aerial underwater vehicles (HAUVs) compatible with the advantages of the aerial vehicles and the underwater vehicles is of great significance. This paper presents the first study on a new HAUV layout using four roto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Implementation of Underwater Vehicles)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,945 Views
40 Pages

Unmanned Aerial Underwater Vehicles: Research Progress and Prospects

  • Hangyu Zhou,
  • Weiqiang Hu,
  • Zhaoyu Wei,
  • Yuehui Teng and
  • Liyang Dong

7 November 2025

Unmanned aerial underwater vehicles (UAUVs) will play significant roles in several complex application scenarios including observation of mesoscale ocean phenomena, monitoring of offshore platforms, ocean protection, and maritime rescue. These innova...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
15,049 Views
18 Pages

22 July 2014

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are vehicles that are primarily used to accomplish oceanographic research data collection and auxiliary offshore tasks. At the present time, they are usually powered by lithium-ion secondary batteries, which have...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 1st International e-Conference on Energies — Whither Energy Conversion? Present Trends, Current Problems and Realistic Future Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,461 Views
15 Pages

Developing and Field Testing Path Planning for Robotic Aquaculture Water Quality Monitoring

  • Anthony Davis,
  • Paul S. Wills,
  • James E. Garvey,
  • William Fairman and ,
  • Md Arshadul Karim and
  • Bing Ouyang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 February 2023

Marine food chains are highly stressed by aggressive fishing practices and environmental damage. Aquaculture has increasingly become a source of seafood which spares the deleterious impact on wild fisheries. However, continually monitoring water qual...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM))
  • Review
  • Open Access
386 Citations
33,943 Views
20 Pages

7 April 2020

Autonomous navigation requires both a precise and robust mapping and localization solution. In this context, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a very well-suited solution. SLAM is used for many applications including mobile robotics, se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Mobile Robots: Real-Time Sensing, Navigation, and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,649 Views
18 Pages

Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Image Processing Techniques in Monitoring Underwater Coastal Protection Measures

  • Jakub Śledziowski,
  • Paweł Terefenko,
  • Andrzej Giza,
  • Paweł Forczmański and ,
  • Andrzej Łysko,
  • Witold Maćków,
  • Grzegorz Stępień,
  • Arkadiusz Tomczak and
  • Apoloniusz Kurylczyk
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 January 2022

A prerequisite for solving issues associated with surf zone variability, which affect human activity in coastal zones, is an accurate estimation of the effects of coastal protection methods. Therefore, performing frequent monitoring activities, espec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing of the Inland and Coastal Water Zones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
689 Views
35 Pages

Dynamic Modeling and Integrated Optimization Design of a Biomimetic Skipping Plate for Hybrid Aquatic–Aerial Vehicle

  • Fukui Gao,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Lei Yu,
  • Zhe Zhang and ,
  • Wenhua Wu and
  • Xinlin Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

A hybrid aquatic–aerial vehicle (HAAV) is a novel type of aircraft capable of both aerial flight and underwater navigation. Inspired by the swan’s gliding and landing motion on water surfaces, this study investigates the dynamic modeling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics, Control, and Design of Bionic Underwater Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
21,188 Views
32 Pages

Vision-Based Navigation and Perception for Autonomous Robots: Sensors, SLAM, Control Strategies, and Cross-Domain Applications—A Review

  • Eder A. Rodríguez-Martínez,
  • Wendy Flores-Fuentes,
  • Farouk Achakir,
  • Oleg Sergiyenko and
  • Fabian N. Murrieta-Rico

7 July 2025

Camera-centric perception has matured into a cornerstone of modern autonomy, from self-driving cars and factory cobots to underwater and planetary exploration. This review synthesizes more than a decade of progress in vision-based robotic navigation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interdisciplinary Insights in Engineering Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,221 Views
32 Pages

Non-Linear Time-Varying Modeling and Simulation Methods for Hydrodynamic–Aerodynamic Coupling Near-Surface Flight Scenarios

  • Mingzhen Wang,
  • Guilin Wu,
  • Hongqiang Lv,
  • Siyang Liu and ,
  • Longtai Huang and
  • Naifeng He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 February 2025

Due to irregular hydrodynamic–aerodynamic coupling, the modeling and simulation of near-surface flight are extremely complex. For the present study, a practical dynamic model and a complete motion simulation method for the solution of such prob...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,133 Views
20 Pages

Robust Bathymetric Mapping in Shallow Waters: A Digital Surface Model-Integrated Machine Learning Approach Using UAV-Based Multispectral Imagery

  • Mandi Zhou,
  • Ai Chin Lee,
  • Ali Eimran Alip,
  • Huong Trinh Dieu and ,
  • Yi Lin Leong and
  • Seng Keat Ooi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 September 2025

The accurate monitoring of short-term bathymetric changes in shallow waters is essential for effective coastal management and planning. Machine Learning (ML) applied to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based multispectral imagery offers a rapid and cost...

  • Review
  • Open Access
75 Citations
10,836 Views
30 Pages

NOMA-Based VLC Systems: A Comprehensive Review

  • Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan,
  • Muhammad Sadiq,
  • Yanlong Li,
  • Alexey V. Shvetsov and ,
  • Svetlana V. Shvetsova and
  • Muhammad Shafiq
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 March 2023

The enhanced proliferation of connected entities needs a deployment of innovative technologies for the next generation wireless networks. One of the critical concerns, however, is the spectrum scarcity, due to the unprecedented broadcast penetration...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques in Emerging Optical Wireless Sensor Networks)