Scientific challenges and present capabilities in underwater robotic vehicle design and navigation for oceanographic exploration under-ice

LDL Barker, MV Jakuba, AD Bowen, CR German… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the scientific motivation and challenges, development, and use of
underwater robotic vehicles designed for use in ice-covered waters, with special attention …

Ocean remote sensing techniques and applications: A review (part ii)

M Amani, S Mehravar, RM Asiyabi, A Moghimi… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
As discussed in the first part of this review paper, Remote Sensing (RS) systems are great
tools to study various oceanographic parameters. Part I of this study described different …

Data-driven robotic sampling for marine ecosystem monitoring

J Das, F Py, JBJ Harvey, JP Ryan… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Robotic sampling is attractive in many field robotics applications that require persistent
collection of physical samples for ex-situ analysis. Examples abound in the earth sciences in …

Triboelectric hydrophone for underwater detection of low-frequency sounds

J Liu, M Liu, C Sun, Z Lin, Z Feng, S Si, J Yang - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A hydrophone is the core part of sonar and plays an important role in underwater acoustic
detection applications. However, there is still room for hydrophones to improve their ability to …

Coordinated sampling of dynamic oceanographic features with underwater vehicles and drifters

J Das, F Py, T Maughan, T O'reilly… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
We extend existing oceanographic sampling methodologies to sample an advecting feature
of interest using autonomous robotic platforms. GPS-tracked Lagrangian drifters are used to …

Review of AUV underwater terrain matching navigation

P Chen, Y Li, Y Su, X Chen, Y Jiang - The Journal of Navigation, 2015 - cambridge.org
Underwater terrain matching navigation technology is an important research area for the
underwater navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Terrain matching …

A multibeam-based SLAM algorithm for iceberg mapping using AUVs

P Norgren, R Skjetne - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for mapping underwater topography of sea-
ice and icebergs, or detecting keels of ice ridges, is foreseen as enabling technology in …

A high‐resolution AUV navigation framework with integrated communication and tracking for under‐ice deployments

S Randeni, T Schneider, ESC Bhatt… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We developed an environmentally adaptive under‐ice navigation framework that was
deployed in the Arctic Beaufort Sea during the United States Navy Ice Exercise in March …

Adaptive federated IMM filter for AUV integrated navigation systems

W Lyu, X Cheng, J Wang - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
High accuracy and reliable navigation in the underwater environment is very critical for the
operations of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). This paper proposes an adaptive …

Mapping the underside of an iceberg with a modified underwater glider

M Zhou, R Bachmayer, B deYoung - Journal of Field Robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Icebergs pose many challenges to offshore operations in the Arctic Ocean and sub‐arctic
regions. They could damage underwater infrastructure such as pipelines, and disrupt marine …