The development of precise and robust navigation strategies for Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles (AUVs) is fundamental to reach the high level of performance required by complex …

This letter is on cooperative localization and sea currents estimation using multiple
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Due to sea currents, dead reckoning localization …

Attitude estimation is a crucial aspect for navigation and motion control of autonomous
vehicles. This concept is particularly true in the case of unavailability of localization sensors …

Robust and performing navigation systems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
play a discriminant role towards the success of complex underwater missions involving one …

High-performance micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) gyrocompasses for north-
finding systems have been very popular for decades. In this paper, a MEMS north-finding …

High performance north-finding systems (NFSs) based on Micro-Electro-Mechanical System
(MEMS) gyroscopes are widely concerned over decades. This letter proposes a novel …

In this research work a case study dealing with the identification of the main hydrodynamic
properties of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is presented. The vehicle is the …

This work aims to develop and evaluate a navigation strategy based on optical payloads for
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). The use of cameras for navigation purposes can …

It is a huge challenge for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to determine heading
autonomously without the signal of satellite or underwater acoustic positioning system. The …

An adaptive gradient descent algorithm (AGDA) based on a fuzzy system is proposed to
improve the attitude estimation accuracy and adaptability of unmanned underwater vehicles …