3 papers
cs.RO2026
Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling
Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan +3
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating specific coral species of interest remains difficult: target species are…
cs.RO2026
Sonar-GPS Fusion for Seabed Mapping in Turbid Shallow Waters with an Autonomous Surface Vehicle
Yisheng Zhang, Michael Xu, Alan Williams +3
Accurate seabed mapping is essential for habitat monitoring and infrastructure inspection. In turbid, shallow coastal waters, such as shellfish aquaculture farms, the effectiveness…
cs.RO2026
DREAM: Domain-aware Reasoning for Efficient Autonomous Underwater Monitoring
Zhenqi Wu, Abhinav Modi, Angelos Mavrogiannis +6
The ocean is warming and acidifying, increasing the risk of mass mortality events for temperature-sensitive shellfish such as oysters. This motivates the development of long-term m…