As one of the most effective vehicles for ocean development and exploration, underwater
gliding robots (UGRs) have the unique characteristics of low energy consumption and strong …

System design optimization of an underwater glider involves various disciplines, such as
hydrodynamics, structure, sizing, control, power, payload, and trajectory, which overlap with …

Underwater glider (UG) is the only marine equipment in the field of ocean observation that
can realize unmanned autonomous, all-weather and wide-area continuous 3-D observation …

Faced with the difficulty in finding and locating leakage points of submarine pipelines timely
as well as the high cost of pipeline routine inspection, a scheme using autonomous …

Energy consumption and motion accuracy are both important performance metrics for
underwater gliders, which are closely related to the glider control parameters values. For the …

Underwater glider (UG) is one of the most promising ocean observation platforms, which
involves multiple disciplines. Currently, the system design of UGs greatly relies on the time …

With recent developments in battery technology and low power technology, biofouling, a
process referring to the gradual accumulation of organisms on underwater surfaces, has …

Underwater glider (UG) is widely applied for long-term ocean observation, the gliding range
of which is mainly influenced by its design. In this paper, the design parameters that have …

Biomimetics, which draws inspiration from nature, has emerged as a key approach in the
development of underwater vehicles. The integration of this approach with computational …

Hydrodynamic shape is an important factor of underwater glider (UG), which influences its
gliding efficiency and energy consumption. This paper proposes a shape optimization …