Evaluation of UKF-based fusion strategies for autonomous underwater vehicles multisensor navigation

A Bucci, M Franchi, A Ridolfi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the underwater domain, guaranteeing accurate navigation for an autonomous underwater
vehicle (AUV) is a complex but fundamental task to be achieved. As a matter of fact, only by …

Underwater navigation with 2D forward looking SONAR: An adaptive unscented Kalman filter‐based strategy for AUVs

M Franchi, A Ridolfi, B Allotta - Journal of Field Robotics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most significant challenges in the underwater domain is to retrieve the
autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) position within the surrounding environment. Indeed …

Learning the Ego-Motion of an Underwater Imaging Sonar: A Comparative Experimental Evaluation of Novel CNN and RCNN Approaches

B Muñoz, G Troni - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This research addresses the challenge of estimating the ego-motion of a forward-looking
sonar (FLS) through deep neural networks (DNNs) and their application in autonomous …

Acoustic-optic assisted multisensor navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles

K Yang, Z Zhang, R Cui, W Yan - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Underwater navigation is a challenging problem in the field of Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles (AUVs) due to significant electromagnetic wave attenuation and uncertainties in the …

Active propulsion noise shaping for multi-rotor aircraft localization

G Serussi, T Shor, T Hirshberg, C Baskin… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-rotor aerial autonomous vehicles (MAVs) primarily rely on vision for navigation
purposes. However, visual localization and odometry techniques suffer from poor …

Underwater robotics competitions: The European Robotics League emergency robots experience with FeelHippo AUV

M Franchi, F Fanelli, M Bianchi, A Ridolfi… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Underwater robots are nowadays employed for many different applications; during the last
decades, a wide variety of robotic vehicles have been developed by both companies and …

Covariance and Gain-based Federated Unscented Kalman Filter for Acoustic-Visual-Inertial Underwater Navigation

A Bucci, A Ridolfi, M Franchi… - OCEANS 2021: San …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern mobile robots require precise and robust localization and navigation systems to
achieve mission tasks correctly. In particular, in the underwater environment, where Global …

2d forward looking sonar in underwater navigation aiding: an aukf-based strategy for auvs

M Franchi, A Ridolfi, L Zacchini - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an underwater navigation system where linear speed estimations,
obtained with a 2D Forward-Looking SONAR (FLS), are integrated within a navigation filter …

External-Memory Networks for Low-Shot Learning of Targets in Forward-Looking-Sonar Imagery

IJ Sledge, CD Toole, JA Maestri, JC Principe - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We propose a memory-based framework for real-time, data-efficient target analysis in
forward-looking-sonar (FLS) imagery. Our framework relies on first removing non …

Development and testing of multisensor strategies for autonomous underwater navigation and mapping

A Bucci - 2023 - flore.unifi.it
In the underwater domain, guaranteeing accurate navigation for an Autonomous
Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is a complex but fundamental task to be achieved. As a matter of …