Target approaching is an essential ability in marine applications, such as underwater
rescue. The recent advances in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) make them ideal …

The water wave optimization (WWO) algorithm is inspired by shallow water wave theory and
mainly simulates propagation, refraction and breaking to obtain the global optimal solution …

Path planning is particularly important for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in the
marine environments. Due to the existence of flow fields, many conventional path planning …

Quickly finding high-quality paths is of great significance for autonomous underwater
vehicles (AUVs) in path planning problems. In this paper, we present a cylinder-based …

This article presents a novel spatiotemporal optimization approach for vertical path planning
(ie, waypoint optimization) to maximize the net output power of an ocean current turbine …

The predictive uncertainty of ocean currents needs to be considered in the path planning of
autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) in oceanic environments. An interval optimization …

As autonomous robot and sensor technologies have advanced, utilisation of autonomous
mobile robots (AMRs) in material handling has grown quickly, owing especially to their …

This work demonstrates distributed motion planning for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle
in a windy outdoor environment. The motion planning is modeled as a receding horizon …

In this paper, we consider the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) trajectory planning
problem under the influence of a realistic 3D current as simulated by an ocean general …

This paper develops a new approach for solving optimal time and energy trajectory planning
problems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in transient, 3D, ocean currents …