Design and development of an under-ice autonomous underwater vehicle for use in Polar regions

A Spears, AM Howard, B Schmidt… - 2014 Oceans-St …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Presented here is the initial hardware and software design of the Icefin autonomous
underwater vehicle for use in under-ice missions in Antarctica. Exploration of the ocean …

Acoustic sonar and video sensor fusion for landmark detection in an under-ice environment

A Spears, AM Howard, M West… - 2014 Oceans-St …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we discuss a low-level sensor fusion method to combine datasets from a
forward-looking acoustic sonar sensor and an optical camera mounted on an unmanned …

Under-ice camera and sonar simulation for visual navigation

A Spears, AM Howard, B Schmidt… - OCEANS 2016 MTS …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Navigation and mapping in relatively featureless underwater and under-ice environments is
a difficult challenge. Using common sensors already onboard many unmanned underwater …

Automatic texture and anomaly mapping in under-ice video datasets

A Spears, A Howard, M West… - OCEANS 2015-MTS …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exploration of under-ice environments has seen increased interest over the past few
years due to advances in technological capabilities, such as autonomous underwater …