Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

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  1. Swim-and-Breach at Palm Scale: A Rudder-Steered Two-Propeller Underwater Robot Platform with Differential-Thrust Pitch Control

    Sep 15, 2026Daehyun Choi, Ian Bergerson, Hengjia Zhu +2Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

  2. Optimal Excitation Trajectories for System Identification of Underwater Vehicles

    Sep 15, 2026Fotis Panetsos, Kostas J. KyriakopoulosAutonomous Underwater VehiclesVessel Trajectory Prediction

  3. DU-NO: A Parameter-Efficient Double U-Shaped Neural Operator for Phase-Resolving Wave Modeling

    Sep 14, 2026Enrique Hernandez Noguera, Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Nathan Cooper +2Shallow Water EquationsOcean Dynamics

  4. HydroMap: Probabilistic Water Surface Elevation Mapping for Semantic Scene Representation in Inland Waterways

    Sep 14, 2026Zhongbi Luo, Yunjia Wang, Herman Bruyninckx +1Lane-Level Map GenerationUnderwater Imagery

  5. 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 MahmoudianAutonomous Underwater VehiclesNeural Guidance

  6. Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Across Diverse Coastal Environments

    Sep 11, 2026Seth Knoop, Chad R. Samuelson, Gabriel R. Slade +2Recent Vision-Language ModelsTide

  7. Coastal Environment Generation with HoloOcean

    Sep 9, 2026Abigail Austin, Brady Moon, Joshua G. MangelsonAutonomous Underwater VehiclesData Generation Pipelines

  8. CougarTail & CUB: A General-Purpose Mast and Central Utility Board for Cylindrical Underwater Enclosures

    Sep 9, 2026Ben Washburn, Clayton Smith, Eli Gaskin +4Autonomous Underwater VehiclesSingle-Antenna Systems

  9. Neptune: An AI model for Global Ocean Subseasonal Prediction

    Sep 8, 2026Davide Donno, Italo Epicoco, Massimo Cafaro +8Global Climate ModelsSea Surface Temperature

  10. Mini-Batch Risk-Averse Deep Q-Learning: A Robot Navigation Case Study

    Sep 7, 2026Aayush Patel, Andrzej RuszczyńskiMarkov Decision ProcessesReinforcement-Learning Policies

  11. SMaRT-Tug: Structured Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Physics-Based Tugboat-Barge Collaborative Manipulation

    Sep 7, 2026Junkai Lu, Jiadong Zhao, Jiacheng Zhang +8Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

  12. Open-Set Vessel Re-Identification from Underwater Ship-Radiated Noise with a Raw-Waveform Selective-Kernel Acoustic Neural Network (SKANN) and a Cross-Passage Evaluation Protocol

    Sep 7, 2026Sunil TyagiVessel DetectionUnderwater Object Detection

  13. Autonomous robotic bridging using distributed swarm control without inter-agent communication

    Sep 1, 2026Vishwaak C. Thamaraiselvan, Cody L. Lundberg, Michail Theofandis +2Autonomous Underwater VehiclesSwarms

  14. Towards Continual Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Aug 30, 2026Chandler Timm C. Doloriel, Yunbei Zhang, Sarthak Kumar Maharana +5Vision-Language Model AdaptationVision-Language Alignment

  15. Optimal control of a swimming robot based on Purcell's microswimmer model

    Aug 18, 2026Noam Berkovich Lahav, Oren Wiezel, Yizhar OrSwimmingOptimal Control

  16. A Browser-Native Digital Test Range for Benchmarking 4D Ocean-Glider Planning Algorithms

    Aug 13, 2026Edward Holmberg, Elias Ioup, Mahdi AbdelguerfiUnderwater Imagery4D Generation

  17. OGR-MARL: Option-Guided Residual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous USV Cooperative Pursuit in Constrained Port Waterways

    Aug 13, 2026Mao Jiayang, Wang Lanfeng, Peng Zhao-HanAutonomous Underwater VehiclesMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  18. AMR-Pose: An Active LED Marker-Based Relative Pose Estimation Framework With Probabilistic Switching PnP for Cooperative AUVs

    Aug 13, 2026Zeyu Sha, Xiaorui Wang, Mingyang Yang +1Autonomous Underwater VehiclesRobust Localization

  19. 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 Reinforcement LearningMulti-Drone Coordination

  20. IoT-Enabled Autonomous Maritime Navigation in Smart Ports: A Curriculum-Guided Shared Policy Learning Framework

    Aug 12, 2026Yuqing Lin, Rangya Zhang, Kum Fai YuenAutonomous Underwater VehiclesCurriculum Reinforcement Learning

  21. VLMs Win a Systematic Evaluation of Underwater Image Reconstruction

    Aug 11, 2026Sara Aghajanzadeh, Yingxue Wang, Ieva Bagdonaviciute +1Underwater Image EnhancementUnderwater

  22. Seeing above the waves: A modular sensing framework for data acquisition at sea

    Aug 11, 2026Jonathan E. Schmidt, Julius Wirbel, P. Nicholas Hansen +4VesselsLight Detection And Ranging

  23. π-SUB: A Physics-Informed Synthetic Underwater Benchmark Dataset for Underwater Image Enhancement

    Aug 11, 2026Namritha Lasyapriya Maddali, Rajini Makam, Suresh Sundaram +1Underwater Image EnhancementUnderwater Object Detection

  24. Deep Learning based Detection of Fishing Vessels and Fishing Monitoring using Nightlight Images

    Aug 10, 2026Shantakar Mohanty, Prasun Kumar Gupta, Raian Vargas MarettoVessel DetectionSatellite Imagery

  25. CoRe-UIE: Rethinking Coexisting and Region-wise Degradation for Underwater Image Enhancement

    Aug 10, 2026Weifeng Kong, Chenghao Xu, Lin Chen +2Underwater Image EnhancementUnderwater

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

    Aug 9, 2026Mohamed Abdelwahab, Ruggero Carli, Damiano Varagnolo +1Autonomous Underwater VehiclesDynamic Environments

  27. Degradation-Guided Underwater Image Restoration with Task-Oriented Latent Control

    Aug 9, 2026Xu Zhang, Xuhui Cao, Kangzhe Yuan +5Underwater Image EnhancementImage Restoration

  28. Knowledge-Distilled End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Smooth 6-DOF Thrust Control and Rapid Adaptation to Ocean Currents in Remotely Operated Vehicles

    Aug 9, 2026Tiankuang Wen, Huiping Li, Gang Liu +1Robust ControlProximal Policy Optimization

  29. Stochastic Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Lie Groups for Learning Underwater Vehicle Dynamics

    Aug 8, 2026Evan F. Palmer, Ross L. Hatton, Geoffrey A. HollingerAutonomous Underwater VehiclesFluid Dynamics

  30. SCTD 3.0: Sonar Common Target Detection in the Wild - A Large-Scale, Multi-Scene Dataset from Real Marine Surveys

    Aug 8, 2026Peng ZhangSonarUnderwater Object Detection

  31. Neural Operators for Immersed-Boundary Soft Swimmers Locomotion

    Aug 7, 2026Mohammad Sadegh Eshaghi, Yizheng Wang, Navid Valizadeh +2SwimmingComputational Fluid Dynamic

  32. IceHorizon: A Dataset for Horizon Detection in Ice-Covered Maritime Environments and Comparative Evaluation of Detection Methods

    Aug 7, 2026Alisa Pesotskaia, Emin ZermanVessel DetectionOcean Dynamics

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

    Aug 5, 2026Md Ether Deowan, Eleni KelasidiAutonomous Underwater VehiclesUnderwater

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

    Aug 5, 2026Erik Tjærand Frøland, Marco Job, Md Ether Deowan +1Autonomous Underwater VehiclesUnderwater

  35. Transferable Dual-Stream Representations for Mesoscale-Preserving Sea Surface Temperature Downscaling

    Aug 4, 2026Parth Doshi, Priyanka Aravindan, Vaishnav Vaidheeswaran +2Dynamical DownscalingSea Surface Temperature

  36. Multi-Source Dynamic Graph Learning for Compound-Flood Forecasting in Managed Coastal Systems

    Aug 3, 2026Liangjun You, Min Wu, Orlando Woods +1Accurate Flood PredictionRetrieval-Augmented Forecasting

  37. TIDES: A Longitudinal Bilingual Dataset for Modeling Multi-Party Social Dynamics

    Aug 3, 2026Heechan Lee, Jeonggyu Kang, Junho Myung +3Conversational DatasetsMultilingual Corpus

  38. Swimm3R: Splatting with Medium-aware SfM for Underwater 3D Reconstruction

    Aug 2, 2026Minseong Kweon, Junaed SattarUnderwaterUnderwater Image Enhancement

  39. Localization in Spatiotemporal Fields via Environmental PDEs

    Jul 31, 2026Jose Fuentes, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Ana Cavalcanti +1Robust LocalizationInvariant Extended Kalman Filter

  40. RPL-UIE: Reliable Prior Learning for Underwater Image Enhancement

    Jul 31, 2026Yifan Chen, Jiaming Liu, Ye Zheng +2Underwater Image EnhancementMotion Priors

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

    Jul 31, 2026Alan-Barsag Gazzaev, Alexey Gavrilov, Sergey MuravyovAutonomous Underwater VehiclesVideo Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture

  42. Machines that know they are aging: a framework for hardware-aware autonomous intelligence

    Jul 30, 2026Cheng Siong Chin, Jianhua Zhang, Mohan VenkateshkumarAutomation and MachinesAutonomous Underwater Vehicles

  43. 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 +3Multi-Robot SystemsDynamic Multi-Scale Coordination Framework

  44. Towards Faithful Sentimental Image Captioning via Evidence-Aware Multi-Agent Reasoning

    Jul 28, 2026Tiecheng Cai, Zexian Yang, Chao Chen +2Dense Video CaptioningDetecting Hallucinations

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

    Jul 27, 2026Khadija Rais, Abdelmadjid Benmachiche, Imene SoualmiaEfficient Path PlanningAutonomous Underwater Vehicles

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

    Jul 27, 2026Hongrui Wu, Songhui Wang, Xin WangAutonomous Underwater VehiclesRobust Control

  47. Energy Constrained Hierarchical Underwater Monitoring via Local Multi-Agent RAG

    Jul 27, 2026Mohamed Amine Janati, Laurent Gautier, Stéphane BarbotUnderwater Object DetectionNvidia Jetson Orin Nano

  48. MarineEVT: Advancing Event-Centric Marine Video Understanding via Visual Tool Reasoning

    Jul 27, 2026Tuan-An To, Yuk-Kwan Wong, Tuan-Anh Vu +2Recent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

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

    Jul 26, 2026Mohammad SabouriAutonomous Underwater VehiclesUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectories

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

    Jul 26, 2026Xiaozhu Lin, Xu Huang, Hongru Dai +3Autonomous Underwater VehiclesAgility

  51. DY-LUT: Depth-Aware YCbCr Lookup Tables for Real-Time Underwater Image Enhancement

    Jul 24, 2026Cunhao Zhu, Xiangtao Kong, Dongliang Xu +3Underwater Image EnhancementImage Degradation

  52. CLUIE: Clustering-Aware Recurrent Propagation with Local Structural Compensation for Underwater Image Enhancement

    Jul 23, 2026Kui Jiang, Zefan Feng, Laibin Chang +3Underwater Image EnhancementImage Restoration

  53. WAT3R: Feedforward Underwater 3D Reconstruction

    Jul 23, 2026Jiayi Xu, Jiahao Lu, Ziqiang Zheng +4Underwater Image EnhancementUnderwater Imagery

  54. Distributed Motion Planning with Safety Guarantees for Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Boats

    Jul 22, 2026Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia, Wei Wang, Wei Xiao +4Autonomous Underwater VehiclesCollision Avoidance

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

    Jul 22, 2026Gabrielė Kasparavičiūtė, Pasquale Grippa, Kjetil Skaugset +2Autonomous Underwater VehiclesObject Placement

  56. Incomplete Observations Boost Evolutionary Performance in Ocean Modeling

    Jul 21, 2026Yangyang Kong, Yutong Jiang, Yanhai Gan +3Data AssimilationOcean Dynamics

  57. Decoupled Pipeline with Proposal Reranking and Score Fusion for Positive-Unlabeled Marine Species Detection

    Jul 21, 2026Robert James Brock, Sebastian Maximilian Krupa, Jason Kahei TamUnderwater Object DetectionDinov3

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

    Jul 20, 2026Patrick Zheng, Saagar Arya, Hung Le +16Autonomous Underwater VehiclesRoboracer Platform

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

    Jul 20, 2026Adrian Bodenmann, Cailei Liang, Miquel Massot-Campos +8Underwater ImageryUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery

  60. BG4Sea: Biogeochemical Seasonal Forecastability via Progressive Information Scaling

    Jul 18, 2026Gabriela Martinez Balbontin, Anastase Charantonis, Dominique Bereziat +1Tide