Adaptive low-level control of autonomous underwater vehicles using deep reinforcement learning

I Carlucho, M De Paula, S Wang, Y Petillot… - Robotics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Low-level control of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has been extensively
addressed by classical control techniques. However, the variable operating conditions and …

Double Q-PID algorithm for mobile robot control

I Carlucho, M De Paula, GG Acosta - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Many expert systems have been developed for self-adaptive PID controllers of mobile
robots. However, the high computational requirements of the expert systems layers …

AUV position tracking control using end-to-end deep reinforcement learning

I Carlucho, M De Paula, S Wang… - OCEANS 2018 MTS …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article we consider the navigation problem for an autonomous underwater vehicle
(AUV) for reaching a desired way-point. The navigation problem in underwater vehicles …

A nonlinear model predictive controller for remotely operated underwater vehicles with disturbance rejection

Y Cao, B Li, Q Li, AA Stokes, DM Ingram… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) are growing in importance in the ocean
environment for observation and manipulation tasks, particularly when used to maintain …

An adaptive data-driven controller for underwater manipulators with variable payload

I Carlucho, DW Stephens, C Barbalata - Applied Ocean Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The underwater environment poses a complex problem for developing control systems for
underwater manipulators. Modeling the system is a complicated and costly process due to …

Coupled and decoupled force/motion controllers for an underwater vehicle-manipulator system

C Barbalata, MW Dunnigan, Y Petillot - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Autonomous interaction with the underwater environment has increased the interest of
scientists in the study of control structures for lightweight underwater vehicle-manipulator …

Disturbance Preview for Non-Linear Model Predictive Trajectory Tracking of Underwater Vehicles in Wave Dominated Environments

KL Walker, F Giorgio-Serchi - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Operating in the near-vicinity of marine energy devices poses significant challenges to the
control of underwater vehicles, predominantly due to the presence of large magnitude wave …

Deep reinforcement learning for vectored thruster autonomous underwater vehicle control

T Liu, Y Hu, H Xu - Complexity, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are widely used to accomplish various missions in
the complex marine environment; the design of a control system for AUVs is particularly …

Semi-parametric control architecture for autonomous underwater vehicles subject to time delays

I Carlucho, D Stephens, W Ard, C Barbalata - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a data-driven model-based control system for autonomous underwater
vehicles (or AUVs) subject to input delays. This work is motivated by the input time delays …

From market-ready ROVs to low-cost AUVs

JS Willners, I Carlucho, S Katagiri… - OCEANS 2021: San …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are becoming increasingly important for different
types of industrial applications. The generally high cost of AUVs restricts the access to them …