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  1. A Differentiable Composite Approximation Framework for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Maneuvering Modeling from Sea-Trial Data

    Jun 18, 2026Aobo Wang, Aifei Xia, Zihao Wang +1Dynamical SystemsUnderwater Robotics

  2. TO-SoFiT: Topology Optimization of Hydraulic Soft Fish Tail Design for programmable undulating locomotion

    Jun 14, 2026A Padmaprabhan, Amal Shaji, Prabhat KumarTopology OptimizationUnderwater Robotics

  3. An Autonomous Subgram SMA-Based Swimmer

    Jun 12, 2026Conor K. Trygstad, Francisco M. F. R. Gonçalves, Néstor O. Pérez-ArancibiaRobot LocomotionUnderwater Robotics

  4. Semantically-Aware Diver Activity Recognition Framework for Effective Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration

    Jun 10, 2026Sadman Sakib Enan, Junaed SattarHuman Activity RecognitionHuman-Robot Collaboration

  5. Model-based Optimization of Anguilliform Swimming Gaits for Soft Robotic Applications

    Jun 9, 2026Brian Van Stratum, James Gallentine, Caleb Rucker +3Robot LocomotionUnderwater Robotics

  6. Three-dimensional hydro-cluttered locomotion by an undulatory robot

    Jun 5, 2026Tianyu Wang, Matthew Fernandez, Galen Tunnicliffe +10Robot LocomotionUnderwater Robotics

  7. Towards Realistic 3D Sonar Simulation

    Jun 4, 2026Youssef Attia, Davide Costa, Francesco Wanderlingh +2Robotics SimulationUnderwater Robotics

  8. 3D Underwater Path Planning via Generative Flow Field Surrogates

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

  9. Toward Gripper-Integrated Active Electrosense for Pre-Contact Sensing in Underwater Soft Grippers

    Jun 2, 2026Ahsan Tanveer, Muhammad Hamza, Waqar Hussain Afridi +2Active SensingRobotic Manipulation

  10. A Sonar-Visual Dataset for Cross-Modal Underwater Robot Perception

    May 31, 2026Weitung Chen, Phil Tinn, Per Gunnar Auran +2Cross-Modal LearningUnderwater Robotics

  11. Cuttlebot: a platform demonstration for complex, autonomous, bio-inspired swimmers

    May 29, 2026Alexander Nicholas White, Ang Leo Li, Alexander Yin +5Robot LocomotionUnderwater Robotics

  12. Neural Radiated-Noise Fields for Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Noise Spectrum Prediction in Three-Dimensional Scenes

    May 29, 2026Yan Wu, Yang Yang, Jun Fan +1Implicit Neural RepresentationsUnderwater Robotics

  13. A Bioinspired Underwater Robot with a Latch-Mediated Soft Bistable Mechanism

    May 26, 2026Chongze Bi, Wenjie Wu, Zonghao Zuo +1Mechanism DesignUnderwater Robotics

  14. Path Following Control System of Line-of-Sight Guidance for Robotic Dolphin with Multi-Link Mechanism in Underwater Simulator

    May 25, 2026Takumi Asada, Takao Oki, Hideo Furuhashi +3Robot Trajectory TrackingUnderwater Robotics

  15. Task-Semantic Graph-Driven Distributed Agent Networking for Underwater Target Tracking

    May 15, 2026Shengchao Zhu, Guangjie Han, Chuan Lin +1Underwater RoboticsDecentralized MARL

  16. SeaVis: Modeling and Control of a Remotely Operated Towed Vehicle for Seabed Visualization and Mapping

    May 14, 2026Abdelhakim Amer, Aske Alstrup, Frederik Rasmussen +3Robotic ControlRobust Control

  17. Above and Below: Heterogeneous Multi-robot SLAM Across Surface and Underwater Domains

    May 10, 2026John McConnell, Armon Shariati, Paul Szenher +1Simultaneous Localization and MappingMulti-Robot Systems

  18. LASSA Architecture-Based Autonomous Fault-Tolerant Control of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

    May 10, 2026Hong Chen, Zixiang Tang, Yuanbao Chen +1Language Model-Based ControlLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

  19. HyDRA Scorpion: A Cost-effective and Modular ROV for Real-Time Underwater Inspection, Intervention, and Object Detection

    May 9, 2026Anika Tabassum Orchi, Md Farhan Zaman, Md Darain Khan +16RoboticsRobotic Manipulation

  20. Cycle-resolved Cephalopod-Inspired Pulsed-Jet Robot With High-Volume Expulsion and Drag-Reduced Gliding

    May 7, 2026Yiyuan Zhang, Anye Zhong, Junkai Chen +1RoboticsRobot Locomotion

  21. AI-Aided Advancements in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation

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

  22. Sonar-GPS Fusion for Seabed Mapping in Turbid Shallow Waters with an Autonomous Surface Vehicle

    May 3, 2026Yisheng Zhang, Michael Xu, Alan Williams +3Underwater RoboticsMultimodal Sensor Fusion

  23. 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

  24. M2^{2}GRPO: Mamba-based Multi-Agent Group Relative Policy Optimization for Biomimetic Underwater Robots Pursuit

    Apr 21, 2026Yukai Feng, Zhiheng Wu, Zhengxing Wu +2Multi-Robot SystemsGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  25. 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

  26. Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling

    Mar 10, 2026Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan +3Underwater RoboticsActive Visual Perception