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Zhengwei Wang, Haitao Gu, Jichao Lang and Lin Xing
This study verifies the effects of deployment parameters on the safe separation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and mission payloads. The initial separation phase is meticulously modeled based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations em...
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Jia Wang, Tianyi Tao, Daohua Lu, Zhibin Wang and Rongtao Wang
The onboard energy supply of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is one of the main limiting factors for their development. The existing methods of deploying and retrieving AUVs from mother ships consume a significant amount of energy during submerging...
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Sungil Byun and Dongik Lee
This paper presents a phased fault tree analysis (phased-FTA)-based approach to evaluate the performability of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in real time. AUVs carry out a wide range of missions, including surveying the marine environment, search...
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Hongfei Li, Daqi Zhu, Mingzhi Chen, Tong Wang and Hongxiu Zhu
Task assignment is of paramount importance in multi-AUV systems, particularly in applications such as bridge inspection where task execution is direction-specific. In such scenarios, the underactuation of AUVs is a critical factor that cannot be ignored....
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Lin Zhang, Yanbin Gao and Lianwu Guan
For seabed mapping, the prevalence of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) employing side-scan sonar (SSS) necessitates robust navigation solutions. However, the positioning errors of traditional strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) and Doppler v...
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Xinyang Zhao, Shaohua Jin, Gang Bian, Yang Cui, Junsen Wang, Yulin Tang and Chao Jiang
In response to the absence of standardized work practices, work safety measures, efficient work procedures, and suitable line planning methods for exploring seabed topography using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) equipped with side-scan sonar syste...
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Zhong Wang, Zhiwen Wen, Wenfei Yang, Zhihui Liu and Huachao Dong
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have the characteristics of a high performance, a complex coupling mechanism, a compact, complex system composition, as well as high requirements for design constraints, quality, and reliability. In the traditional o...
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Zixiao Zhu, Lichuan Zhang, Lu Liu, Dongwei Wu, Shuchang Bai, Ranzhen Ren and Wenlong Geng
Positioning errors introduced by low-precision navigation devices can affect the overall accuracy of a positioning system. To address this issue, this paper proposes a master-slave multi-AUV collaborative navigation method based on hierarchical reinforce...
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Chunmeng Jiang, Jinhua Lv, Lei Wan, Jianguo Wang, Bin He and Gongxing Wu
The classic S-plane control method combines PD structure with fuzzy control theory, with the advantages of a simple control structure and fewer parameters to be adjusted. It has been proved as a practical method in an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) ...
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Loïck Degorre, Emmanuel Delaleau and Olivier Chocron
With the increasing number of applications for both surface and underwater autonomous vehicles, a great amount of control methods and guidance principles has been developed over the years. This work proposes a review of the most common of these methods. ...
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