Underwater vehicles are important tools for marine resource exploration and exert important
effects in civil and military fields. Path planning is an important part in the field of underwater …

Abstract The novel Jaya Optimization Algorithm (JOA) was utilized in this research to
evaluate the efficiency of a new novel design of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) …

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 …

This paper seeks to enhance the autonomy of underwater vehicles. The proposed approach
takes as input a mission specified via a regular language and automatically plans a collision …

We present an approach to endow an autonomous underwater vehicle with the capabilities
to move through unexplored environments. To do so, we propose a computational …

This paper proposes a coverage path planning (CPP) method for inspection of 3D natural
structures on the ocean floor charted as 2.5 D bathymetric maps. This task is integral to …

In this research, generation of a short and smooth path in three-dimensional space with
obstacles for guiding an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) without collision is …

This paper presents a method for constructing 3D maps of marine archaeological sites using
deployments of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) equipped with sonar and cameras …

The design of a robust controller for tracking a depth trajectory of an underwater vehicle in
presence of unknown perturbations and uncertainties in the physical parameters of the …

Reliable and efficient planar surface extraction based on the 3D depth sensors is a crucial
component in mobile robotics. However, extracting planes efficiently remains challenging …