3 accepted papers
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) pose significant communication challenges: vehicles are submerged for periods of time in which speed-of-light communication is impossible. This is a particular problem on low-cost AUV platforms, on which acoustic modems are not available to get vehicle state or…
This paper presents an acoustic localization system for small and low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Accurate and robust localization for low-cost AUVs would lower the barrier toward multi-AUV research in river and ocean environments. However, these AUVs introduce size, power, and cost…
Characterization of seabed targets using networks of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is of great interest for harbor security. The imaging sensors generally used for target localization and classification are expensive for outfitting multiple AUVs and produce data that is difficult to use for