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 …

Underwater gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles that profile vertically by changing
their buoyancy and use wings to move horizontally. Gliders are useful for sustained …

This chapter surveys the problem of navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV
s). Navigation is critical for the safety and effectiveness of AUV missions. The unavailability …

Autonomous platforms already make observations over a wide range of temporal and spatial
scales, measuring salinity, temperature, nitrate, pressure, oxygen, biomass, and many other …

A full‐scale adaptive ocean sampling network was deployed throughout the month‐long
2006 Adaptive Sampling and Prediction (ASAP) field experiment in Monterey Bay …

The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement
of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global …

Autonomous mobile sensor networks are employed to measure large-scale environmental
fields. Yet an optimal strategy for mission design addressing both the cooperative motion …

As the nation's economic activities, security concerns, and stewardship of natural resources
become increasingly complex and globally interrelated, they become ever more sensitive to …

We develop an accurate partial differential equation-based methodology that predicts the
time-optimal paths of autonomous vehicles navigating in any continuous, strong, and …

A stochastic optimization methodology is formulated for computing energy-optimal paths
from among time-optimal paths of autonomous vehicles navigating in a dynamic flow field …