3 papers
cs.RO2021
AquaVis: A Perception-Aware Autonomous Navigation Framework for Underwater Vehicles
Marios Xanthidis, Michail Kalaitzakis, Nare Karapetyan +4
Visual monitoring operations underwater require both observing the objects of interest in close-proximity, and tracking the few feature-rich areas necessary for state estimation.Th…
cs.RO2019
Experimental Comparison of Open Source Visual-Inertial-Based State Estimation Algorithms in the Underwater Domain
Bharat Joshi, Sharmin Rahman, Michail Kalaitzakis +8
A plethora of state estimation techniques have appeared in the last decade using visual data, and more recently with added inertial data. Datasets typically used for evaluation inc…
cs.RO2019
Navigation in the Presence of Obstacles for an Agile Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Marios Xanthidis, Nare Karapetyan, Hunter Damron +5
Navigation underwater traditionally is done by keeping a safe distance from obstacles, resulting in "fly-overs" of the area of interest. Movement of an autonomous underwater vehicl…