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  1. NAViLoss: An Underwater Navigation-Aware Dual-Residual Objective for Physics-Consistent Learning

    Oct 7, 2026Arup Kumar Sahoo, Itzik KleinAutonomous Underwater NavigationRobust Loss Functions

    The Hatter Department of Marine Technologies, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, 3498838, Israel

  2. Onboard Vision and MPC Navigation for Underwater Robots: An Open BlueROV2 Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments & Docking

    Sep 29, 2026Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala, Wiktor Kowalczyk, Cezary Banaszek +1Robot Trajectory TrackingUnderwater Robotics

    Department of Decision and Control Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

  3. AquaWAM: A Dynamics-aware World Action Model for Underwater Embodied Agents

    Sep 27, 2026Cunhao Zhu, Yifeng Wang, Dongliang Xu +3Robot Dynamics LearningAction-Conditioned World Models

    Shandong University (sdu.edu.cn) · Beijing Institute of Technology (bit.edu.cn)

  4. Underwater Navigation in Unsteady Flows Using Measurement Histories from a Single Sensing Unit

    Sep 22, 2026Linhao Jin, Qimin Feng, Peter Gunnarson +1Autonomous Underwater NavigationVirtual Sensing

    School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

  5. Range-Aided SLAM Initialization Exploiting Accurate Heading Information

    Sep 21, 2026Isabel Lougheed, James Richard ForbesSimultaneous Localization and MappingAutonomous Underwater Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada

  6. A Simulation Platform for AUV Fault Recovery: Exploring LLM-Based Diagnostic Strategies

    Sep 17, 2026Khalid Halba, Kylie Cooper, James G. BellinghamLanguage Model-Based ControlRobot Failure Recovery

    Exploration Robotics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy, Baltimore, MD, USA

  7. Equivariant Filter Design for Acoustic and Depth Aided Inertial Navigation Systems

    Sep 17, 2026Arihant Lunawat, Pieter van Goor, Frank Dellaert +1Underwater RoboticsAutonomous Underwater Navigation

    The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia · Georgia Tech Atlanta, USA

  8. SOL-SLAM: Inverse Compositional Gauss-Newton Direct Registration for Fast Sonar-Only Local SLAM

    Sep 16, 2026Kalvik Jakkala, Jason O'KaneSimultaneous Localization and MappingUnderwater Robotics

    Texas A&M University

  9. An Adaptive Fixed-Time Line-of-Sight Guidance Scheme for 3D Path Following of Underwater Vehicles: Theory and Experiment

    Sep 13, 2026Hanzhi Yang, Jalil Chavez-Galaviz, Nina MahmoudianRobot Trajectory TrackingUnderwater Robotics

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA

  10. Multi-AUV Ad-hoc network-based Target Tracking: A Value Gradient Guidance Multi-Agent Diffusion Reinforcement Learning Approach

    Aug 12, 2026Jiaao Ma, Chuan Lin, Guangjie Han +4Multi-Agent ControlDiffusion Policy

    Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China · Key Laboratory of Maritime Intelligent Network Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Hohai University, Changzhou, China · College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210013, China

  11. Hierarchical Topology-Aware Planning and Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems in Confined Environments

    Aug 9, 2026Mohamed Abdelwahab, Ruggero Carli, Damiano Varagnolo +1Underwater RoboticsSafe Motion Planning

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, 35131 Padova, Italy · Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy · Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, O. S. Bragstads plass 2D, 7034 Trondheim, Norway

  12. Unified Planning-Learning Framework for Robust UUV Navigation Under Partial Observability

    Aug 5, 2026Md Ether Deowan, Eleni KelasidiRL ControlPartially Observable RL

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

  13. A Vision-based Control Framework for Real-time Autonomous UUV Operations

    Aug 5, 2026Erik Tjærand Frøland, Marco Job, Md Ether Deowan +1Robot NavigationUnderwater 3D Reconstruction

    Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU, Norway · Oceaneering AS, Norway

  14. AquaJEPA: An Action-Conditioned Multimodal JEPA Family for Underwater Robot Dynamics

    Jul 31, 2026Alan-Barsag Gazzaev, Alexey Gavrilov, Sergey MuravyovMultimodal RobustnessJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

    ITMO University

  15. Hybrid Artificial Potential Fields and Spatio-Temporal Transformers for Real-Time AUV Path Planning

    Jul 27, 2026Khadija Rais, Abdelmadjid Benmachiche, Imene SoualmiaUnderwater RoboticsMotion Planning

    Laboratory of Mathematics, Informatics and Systems (LAMIS), Echahid Cheikh Larbi Tebessi University, T´ebessa, Algeria · Department of Computer Science, LIMA Laboratory, Chadli Bendjedid University, El-Tarf, Algeria

  16. Observer-Assisted Relative-Velocity Compensation with LPV-H∞H_\infty Robust Correction for 3D Trajectory Tracking of Underactuated Non-Minimum-Phase AUVs under Ocean Currents

    Jul 26, 2026Mohammad SabouriRobot Trajectory TrackingRobust Control

    Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, Via all’Opera Pia 13, Genoa, 16145, Italy

  17. Underwater Dead Reckoning with Deployable Situation-Triggered Covariance Scheduling

    Jul 12, 2026Akshay Naik, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas, Dustin Nottage +1Kalman FilteringUnderwater Robotics

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801 USA · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering +3

  18. DIVO: Continuous-time DVL-Inertial-Visual Odometry for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

    Jul 6, 2026Kyungmin Jung, Angad Bajwa, Junha Yoo +2Underwater RoboticsVisual-Inertial Odometry

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

  19. Information-Aided DVL Calibration

    Jun 30, 2026Zeev Yampolsky, Itzik KleinKalman FilteringGNSS-Denied Localization

    The Hatter Department of Marine Technologies Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  20. DVL-DeepONet: A Physics-Guided Operator Learning for Resilient Underwater Navigation

    Jun 22, 2026Arup Kumar Sahoo, Itzik KleinUnderwater RoboticsPhysics-Informed ML

    The Hatter Department of Marine Technologies, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, 3498838, Israel

  21. ISOPoT: Imaging Sonar Odometry by Point Tracking

    Jun 22, 2026Jaša Samec, Vid Rijavec, Marko Peljhan +4Point TrackingRelative Pose Estimation

    Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia · OZON Research Group, TIMTEC, Goriska cesta 6c, Vipava, 5271, Slovenia · MAT Systemics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 3309 Phelps Hall, Santa Barbara, 93106-6065, California, United States of America +1

  22. Towards End to End Motion Planning and Execution for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 7, 2026Elisei Shafer, Oren GalHierarchical RLVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa, Israel

  23. 3D Underwater Path Planning via Generative Flow Field Surrogates

    Jun 4, 2026Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Paulo E. Santos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth +1Surrogate ModelingUnderwater Robotics

    Flinders University · PrioriAnalytica

  24. AI-Aided Advancements in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation

    May 6, 2026Guy Damari, Zeev Yampolsky, Nadav Cohen +4Underwater RoboticsAutonomous Underwater Navigation

    The Hatter Department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave 199, Haifa, 3498838, Israel · Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Campus Universitário, Lavras, 37200-900, MG, Brazil

  25. Task-specific Subnetwork Discovery in Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Navigation

    Apr 23, 2026Yi-Ling Liu, Melvin Laux, Mariela De Lucas Alvarez +2Reinforcement LearningUnderwater Robotics

    Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bremen, Germany · Robotics Research Group, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  26. An Asynchronous Two-Speed Kalman Filter for Real-Time UUV Cooperative Navigation Under Acoustic Delays

    Apr 3, 2026Shuyue Li, Miguel López-Benítez, Eng Gee Lim +5Kalman FilteringGNSS-Denied Localization

    School of Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China · School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK · ARIES Research Centre, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain +3