Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been focused on by research
efforts because of their extensive applications in scientific, commercial as well as military …

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

Localization and mapping has been a long standing area of research, both in neuroscience,
to understand how mammals navigate their environment, as well as in robotics, to enable …

Localisation, ie estimation of one's position in a given environment is a crucial element of
many mobile systems, manned and unmanned. Due to the high demand for autonomous …

Autonomous navigation and positioning are key to the successful performance of unmanned
underwater vehicles (UUVs) in environmental monitoring, oceanographic mapping, and …

Roboticists have long drawn inspiration from nature to develop navigation and simultaneous
localization and mapping (SLAM) systems such as RatSLAM. Animals such as birds and …

Underwater terrain aided navigation (TAN) has shown its potential to yield accurate
navigational results for long-term operation of underwater vehicles. Due to its independence …

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 …

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

Abstract Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with an astonishing research
history of over three decades has brought the concept to the door step of truly autonomous …