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 …

Platelet ice, the Southern Ocean's hidden ice: A review

M Hoppmann, ME Richter, IJ Smith, S Jendersie… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Basal melt of ice shelves is not only an important part of Antarctica's ice sheet mass budget,
but it is also the origin of platelet ice, one of the most distinctive types of sea ice. In many …

The ARTEMIS under‐ice AUV docking system

PW Kimball, EB Clark, M Scully… - Journal of field …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The ARTEMIS docking system demonstrates autonomous docking capability applicable to
robotic exploration of sub‐ice oceans and sub‐glacial lakes on planetary bodies, as well as …

Crevasse refreezing and signatures of retreat observed at Kamb Ice Stream grounding zone

JD Lawrence, PM Washam, C Stevens, C Hulbe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ice streams flowing into Ross Ice Shelf are presently responsible for around 10% of the
mass flux from West Antarctica, with the noteworthy exception of Kamb Ice Stream, which …

Subsurface science and search for life in ocean worlds

JD Lawrence, AD Mullen, FE Bryson… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Several worlds in our solar system are thought to hold oceans of liquid water beneath their
frozen surfaces. These subsurface ice and ocean environments are promising targets in the …

[PDF][PDF] Application of unmanned underwater vehicles in polar research

Z Junbao, L Shuo, L Ya - Advances in Polar Science, 2021 - library.arcticportal.org
The importance of polar ice as vital components of the global ocean–climate system is
widely recognized. In this paper, we demonstrate the importance and urgency of polar …

SUNFISH®: A human-portable exploration AUV for complex 3D environments

K Richmond, C Flesher, L Lindzey… - OCEANS 2018 MTS …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stone Aerospace is developing the SUNFISH® autonomous underwater vehicle which
addresses many of the challenges of remote, autonomous exploration in unstructured …

Motion control of underwater mine explorer robot UX-1: field trials

RAS Fernandez, Z Milošević, S Dominguez… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present the results of a series of field trials conducted with an underwater
vehicle in the increasingly complex underwater environments of the Kaatiala mine in …

The Antarctic ice sheet

EGW Gasson, BA Keisling - Oceanography, 2020 - JSTOR
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest potential contributor to future sea level rise. Models and
paleoceanographic data are often used to examine the past behavior of the ice sheet during …

Exo-ocean exploration with deep-sea sensor and platform technologies

J Aguzzi, MM Flexas, S Flögel, C Lo Iacono… - Astrobiology, 2020 - liebertpub.com
One of Saturn's largest moons, Enceladus, possesses a vast extraterrestrial ocean (ie, exo-
ocean) that is increasingly becoming the hotspot of future research initiatives dedicated to …