To realize the potential of autonomous underwater robots that scale up our observational
capacity in the ocean, new techniques are needed. Fleets of autonomous robots could be …

The structural health of underwater infrastructure such as bridges, dams, and pipelines are
constantly degrading due to aging, fatigue, unexpected loads, and environmental wear and …

Oceans exploration and inspection are a great challenge for the industry nowadays. The
underwater instrumentation and measurements are improving due to the current …

Thrusters are the bottom actuators of the amphibious spherical robot, and play an important
role in the motion control of these robots. To realize accurate motion control, a thrust model …

A dynamic path-planning algorithm based on a general constrained optimization problem
(GCOP) model and a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method with sensor input is …

In the recent past, intervention-class autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have gained
the ocean/marine research community's attention due to their multidisciplinary operational …

Underwater target localization using range-only and single-beacon (ROSB) techniques with
autonomous vehicles has been used recently to improve the limitations of more complex …

The current underwater tracking control methods based on optical image priori data have
the problems of low reliability, high training cost, and poor adaptability to different …

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has high maneuverability near the bottom and
a direction turnaround ability, called the autonomous underwater helicopter (AUH). This …

Intervention-class autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have to execute complex tasks
such as underwater inspection and manipulating objects which demand high …