Underwater scene is highly unstructured, full of various noise interferences. Moreover, GPS
information is not available in the underwater environment, which thus brings huge …

Autonomous localization and navigation, as an essential research area in robotics, has a
broad scope of applications in various scenarios. To widen the utilization environment and …

Traditionally, underwater acoustic modems and positioning systems were developed for
military and Oil & Gas industries, that require deep water deployments and extremely …

As technology advances, the places we have been able to explore have drastically
increased. However, the advancements in the underwater realm have staggered behind …

This letter studies the problem of autonomous navigation for unmanned underwater
vehicles, using computer vision for localization. Parallel tracking and map** is employed …

The present work proposes a method to characterize, calibrate, and compare, any 2D SLAM
algorithm, providing strong statistical evidence, based on descriptive and inferential statistics …

Modern technologies allow us to experience cultural heritage sites in new and exciting
ways. Recent improvements in mobile computing provide tools capable of running …

The main focus of this paper is on extracting features with SOund Navigation And Ranging
(SONAR) sensing for further underwater landmark-based Simultaneous Localization and …

This paper presents an integrated methodology and experimental validation of an
autonomous framework for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) merely equipped with a …

The high-precision localization module is an essential component of unmanned underwater
vehicles (UUVs), providing critical parameter information for motion control, decision …