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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Multi-Objective Compliance-Integrated Coevolution For Simulated And Real-World Deployment Of Multi-Robot Marine Autonomy

    Jul 28, 2026Everardo Gonzalez, Tyler M. Paine, Manuel Agraz Vallejo +3Evolutionary OptimizationMulti-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

    Collaborative Robotics And Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA · MIT Marine Autonomy Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

  4. 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

  5. Ambient pressure compensation and robust position control of oil-filled electric joint systems for underwater manipulators

    Jul 27, 2026Hongrui Wu, Songhui Wang, Xin WangRobotic ControlRobust Control

    School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China

  6. 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

  7. Egocentric Station Holding of Robotic Fish in Unknown Turbulent Background Flow

    Jul 26, 2026Xiaozhu Lin, Xu Huang, Hongru Dai +3Robotic ControlRL for Robotics

    School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China · State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Laboratory of Cognitive and Decision Intelligence for Complex System, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  8. Optimal Placement of Docking Stations and Resident AUVs for Subsea Pipeline Inspection

    Jul 22, 2026Gabrielė Kasparavičiūtė, Pasquale Grippa, Kjetil Skaugset +2Industrial InspectionCombinatorial Optimization

    Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway · Lakeside Labs GmbH, Klagenfurt, Austria · Equinor ASA, Norway

  9. Technical Design Review of Duke Robotics Club's Oogway & Crush: AUVs for RoboSub 2026

    Jul 20, 2026Patrick Zheng, Saagar Arya, Hung Le +16Underwater Robotics

    Duke Robotics Club

  10. Remote Awareness of Seafloor Images Collected by AUVs over Low-Bandwidth Communication Links

    Jul 20, 2026Adrian Bodenmann, Cailei Liang, Miquel Massot-Campos +8Underwater ImagingUnderwater Robotics

    School of Engineering, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK · Ocean Infinity, Southampton, UK · Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK +2

  11. Differentiable Reinforcement Learning for Path Tracking by an Agile Fish-Like Robot

    Jul 17, 2026Prashanth Chivkula, Kartik Loya, Venkata Ravindhra Reddy Varikuti +1Robotic ControlRL Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, USA

  12. Task-Oriented Sensing and Covert Transmissions for Collaborative Multi-AUV Systems

    Jul 15, 2026Xueyao Zhang, Chenyang Yan, Bo Yang +6Cooperative LocalizationUnderwater Robotics

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710129, China · School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710071, China · Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150001, China +4

  13. Design, Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Miniature Hybrid Underwater Glider With Large-Range Foldable Deflectable Wings

    Jul 15, 2026Yongjian Zhu, Yusen Tao, Feitian ZhangRobot Dynamics IdentificationUnderwater Robotics

    Robotics and Control Laboratory, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, and the State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  14. 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

  15. A 3DGS-Driven Dynamic Viewpoint and Vibrotactile Framework for Subsea Teleoperation Validated via fNIRS

    Jul 10, 2026Fang Xu, Tianyu Zhou, Ruitong Tian +2Robot TeleoperationHaptic Feedback

    Informatics, Cobots and Intelligent Construction (ICIC) lab, Dept. of Civil and Costal Engineering, Weil Hall 360, University of Florida · RoboPI Lab, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida · Informatics, Cobots and Intelligent Construction (ICIC) Lab, Dept. of Civil and Costal Engineering, 460F Weil Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

  16. Disturbance-aware Motion Planning for Over-actuated Underwater Vehicles Exploiting Actuation Redundancy for High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction

    Jul 8, 2026Yuer Gao, Tongqing Xu, Qingyang Liu +13D ReconstructionUnderwater 3D Reconstruction

    Smart Manufacturing Thrust, Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  17. APVI-SLAM: Real-Time Acoustic-Pressure-Visual-Inertial Localization and Photorealistic Mapping System in Complex Underwater Environment

    Jul 7, 2026Hanwen Zhang, Yipeng Zhu, Xiaopeng Guo +2Underwater RoboticsVisual-Inertial SLAM

    Division of Integrative Systems and Design, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · School of Interdisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology · Division of Integrative Systems and Design, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Department of Ocean Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  18. Efficient Transfer Learning of Robot Dynamic Models Using Morphological Similarity

    Jul 6, 2026Pavlo Kupyn, Yuya Hamamatsu, Roza Gkliva +2Robot Dynamics IdentificationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

  19. 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

  20. Strouhal-Aware Model Predictive Control for Efficient Multi-Fin Flapping Locomotion

    Jul 3, 2026Yuya Hamamatsu, Zixi Chen, Maarja Kruusmaa +1Energy-Efficient Robot LocomotionModel Predictive Control

    Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia · Brubotics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and IMEC, Brussel, Belgium.

  21. Layout-independent actuation allocator for fin-actuated marine robots

    Jul 3, 2026Yuya Hamamatsu, Maarja Kruusmaa, Asko RistolainenRobotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

  22. Robust Image Processing Techniques for Construction Environment Monitoring Using Underwater Robots

    Jul 2, 2026Seunghee Yun, Geonmo Yang, Juhui Lee +3Underwater Image EnhancementUnderwater Imaging

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University · Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inha University

  23. 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

  24. Average-Power-Budgeted Underwater Vehicle Control via Constrained Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Yinuo Wang, Gavin Tao, Yuze Liu +1RL ControlConstrained RL

    College of Graduate and Professional Studies, Trine University, Angola, IN 46703, USA · School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, D02 PN40, Ireland · School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia +1

  25. Autonomous Subsea Cable Search and Tracking with Graph-Optimised Priors and Visual Tracking

    Jun 22, 2026Ibrahim Fadhil Djauhari, Adrian Bodenmann, Samuel Simmons +6Underwater RoboticsUnderwater Object Detection

    Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute, University of Southampton, UK · Sonardyne International Ltd., Yately, UK · Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. Multi-AUV Marine Life Tracking with Single Hydrophone Payloads via a Hidden Markov Model Equipped Particle Filter

    Jun 21, 2026Christopher Herrera, Kehlani Fay, Christopher Clark +3Particle FilteringUnderwater Robotics

    Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 USA · California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840 USA · University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

  29. A Novel Bio-Inspired Fish Robot with Tunable Stiffness via Particle Jamming

    Jun 19, 2026Jack Stonecipher, Allen Gao, Wei WangRoboticsUnderwater Robotics

    Marine Robotics Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

  30. Manipulider: A Multi-Engine Buoyancy-Controlled Robot for Thrusterless Underwater Gliding and Manipulation

    Jun 19, 2026Yitao Jiang, Yewei Huang, Weizhi Cao +5Robotic ManipulationUnderwater Robotics

    Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. · Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. · Dept. of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. +1