Autonomous underwater vehicle navigation: a review

B Zhang, D Ji, S Liu, X Zhu, W Xu - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been focused on by research
efforts because of their extensive applications in scientific, commercial as well as military …

AUV navigation and localization: A review

L Paull, S Saeedi, M Seto, H Li - IEEE Journal of oceanic …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) navigation and localization in underwater
environments is particularly challenging due to the rapid attenuation of Global Positioning …

[HTML][HTML] Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience

RB Wynn, VAI Huvenne, TP Le Bas, BJ Murton… - Marine geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have a wide range of applications in
marine geoscience, and are increasingly being used in the scientific, military, commercial …

Terrain‐aided navigation for long‐endurance and deep‐rated autonomous underwater vehicles

G Salavasidis, A Munafo, CA Harris… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Terrain‐aided navigation (TAN) is a localisation method which uses bathymetric
measurements for bounding the growth in inertial navigation error. The minimisation of …

Toward autonomous exploration in confined underwater environments

A Mallios, P Ridao, D Ribas, M Carreras… - Journal of Field …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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 …

Improving self-consistency in underwater mapping through laser-based loop closure

T Hitchcox, JR Forbes - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate, self-consistent bathymetric maps are needed to monitor changes in subsea
environments and infrastructure. These maps are increasingly collected by underwater …

Navigation of underwater drones and integration of acoustic sensing with onboard inertial navigation system

A Miller, B Miller, G Miller - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
The navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles is a major scientific and technological
challenge. The principal difficulty is the opacity of the water media for usual types of …

Terrain-aided navigation with coarse maps—Toward an arctic crossing with an AUV

G Salavasidis, A Munafò, SD McPhail… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The desire to conduct research in the Arctic on an ever-larger spatiotemporal scale has led
to the development of long-range autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), such as the …

[HTML][HTML] Under-ice acoustic navigation using real-time model-aided range estimation

ESC Bhatt, O Viquez, H Schmidt - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The long baseline (LBL) underwater navigation paradigm relies on the conversion of travel
times into pseudoranges to trilaterate position. For real-time autonomous underwater vehicle …