Autonomous underwater vehicle navigation: a review

B Zhang, D Ji, S Liu, X Zhu, W Xu - Ocean Engineering, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been focused on by research
efforts because of their extensive applications in scientific, commercial as well as military …

Challenges and future trends in marine robotics

E Zereik, M Bibuli, N Mišković, P Ridao… - Annual Reviews in …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Spawned by fast paced progress in marine science and technology, the past two decades
have witnessed growing interest in ocean exploration and exploitation for scientific and …

Optical sensors and methods for underwater 3D reconstruction

M Massot-Campos, G Oliver-Codina - Sensors, 2015‏ - mdpi.com
This paper presents a survey on optical sensors and methods for 3D reconstruction in
underwater environments. The techniques to obtain range data have been listed and …

Coverage path planning with real‐time replanning and surface reconstruction for inspection of three‐dimensional underwater structures using autonomous …

E Galceran, R Campos, N Palomeras… - Journal of Field …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present a novel method for planning coverage paths for inspecting complex structures
on the ocean floor using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Our method initially …

Intervention AUVs: the next challenge

P Ridao, M Carreras, D Ribas, PJ Sanz… - Annual Reviews in Control, 2015‏ - Elsevier
While commercially available AUVs are routinely used in survey missions, a new set of
applications exist which clearly demand intervention capabilities. The maintenance of …

Visual inspection of hydroelectric dams using an autonomous underwater vehicle

P Ridao, M Carreras, D Ribas… - Journal of Field …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents an automated solution to the visual inspection problem of hydroelectric
dams. A small autonomous underwater vehicle, controllable in four degrees of freedom …

Toward autonomous exploration in confined underwater environments

A Mallios, P Ridao, D Ribas, M Carreras… - Journal of Field …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this field note, we detail the operations and discuss the results of an experiment
conducted in the unstructured environment of an underwater cave complex using an …

Automatic visual bag-of-words for online robot navigation and map**

T Nicosevici, R Garcia - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detecting already-visited regions based on their visual appearance helps reduce drift and
position uncertainties in robot navigation and map**. Inspired from content-based image …

Investigation of vision-based underwater object detection with multiple datasets

DL Rizzini, F Kallasi, F Oleari… - International Journal of …, 2015‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we investigate the potential of vision-based object detection algorithms in
underwater environments using several datasets to highlight the issues arising in different …

Underwater photogrammetry for archaeology

P Drap - Special applications of photogrammetry, 2012‏ - books.google.com
Archaeological excavations are often irreversibly destructive, so it is important to accompany
them with detailed documentation reflecting the accumulated knowledge of the excavation …