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 …

Survey on advances on terrain based navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles

J Melo, A Matos - Ocean Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The autonomy of robotic underwater vehicles is dependent on the ability to perform long-
term and long-range missions without need of human intervention. While current state-of-the …

A review of terrain aided navigation for underwater vehicles

T Ma, S Ding, Y Li, J Fan - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Current algorithms, communication methods and designs for underwater swarm robotics: A review

J Connor, B Champion, MA Joordens - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As technology advances, the places we have been able to explore have drastically
increased. However, the advancements in the underwater realm have staggered behind …

Multibeam 3D underwater SLAM with probabilistic registration

A Palomer, P Ridao, D Ribas - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper describes a pose-based underwater 3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
(SLAM) using a multibeam echosounder to produce high consistency underwater maps. The …

Scan matching SLAM in underwater environments

A Mallios, P Ridao, D Ribas, E Hernández - Autonomous Robots, 2014 - Springer
This paper proposes a pose-based algorithm to solve the full simultaneous localization and
mapping problem for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) navigating in unknown and …

Robust visual-based localization and mapping for underwater vehicles: A survey

S Ding, T Zhang, M Lei, H Chai, F Jia - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The high-precision localization module is an essential component of unmanned underwater
vehicles (UUVs), providing critical parameter information for motion control, decision …

AUV robust bathymetric simultaneous localization and mapping

T Ma, Y Li, R Wang, Z Cong, Y Gong - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Bathymetric simultaneous localization and mapping (BSLAM) technique could provide long-
term underwater navigation results for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and …

Trajectory-based visual localization in underwater surveying missions

A Burguera, F Bonin-Font, G Oliver - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
We present a new vision-based localization system applied to an autonomous underwater
vehicle (AUV) with limited sensing and computation capabilities. The traditional EKF-SLAM …

An Open-Source Solution for Fast and Accurate Underwater Mapping with a Low-Cost Mechanical Scanning Sonar

T Hansen, A Birk - 2024 IEEE International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An open-source software framework is presented that allows real-time underwater mapping
with popular marine robotics components, namely a BlueRobotics BlueROV2 with its …