Recent advances in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) technology have facilitated the
collection of oceanographic data at a fraction of the cost of ship‐based sampling methods …

In robotics and video games, one often discretizes continuous terrain into a grid with blocked
and unblocked grid cells and then uses path-planning algorithms to find a shortest path on …

In this study, a single autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) aims to rendezvous with a
submerged leader recovery vehicle through a cluttered and variable operating field. The …

Underwater robots beneath ocean waves can benefit from feedforward control to reduce
position error. This letter proposes a method using model predictive control (MPC) to predict …

Operating autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) near shore is challenging—heavy
ship** traffic and other hazards threaten AUV safety at the surface, and strong ocean …

This paper presents a mission system and the therein implemented algorithms for path
planning in a time-varying environment based on graph methods. The basic task of the …

This paper presents a novel path planning method for minimizing the energy consumption of
an autonomous underwater vehicle subjected to time varying ocean disturbances and …

Robust and efficient AUV path planning is a key element for persistence AUV maneuvering
in variable underwater environments. To develop such a path planning system, in this study …