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most citedWake-Informed 3D Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using A* and Neural Network Approximations

13 citations · 15 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

A Unified Causal-Origin Taxonomy of Distributional Shifts in Reinforcement Learning

Ardianto Wibowo, Paulo E Santos, Amer Baghdadi +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) systems often degrade when operating conditions differ from those previously encountered, reflecting distributional shifts in the underlying data-genera…

cs.RO2026

3D Underwater Path Planning via Generative Flow Field Surrogates

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Paulo E. Santos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth +1

Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) launch and recovery (LAR) into the hull of an advancing host platform requires traversal of a complex, three-dimensional propeller wake whose hy…

physics.flu-dyn2026

WAKESET: A Large-Scale, High-Reynolds Number Flow Dataset for Machine Learning of Turbulent Wake Dynamics

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Paulo E. Santos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth +1

Machine learning (ML) offers transformative potential for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), promising to accelerate simulations, improve turbulence modelling, and enable real-tim…

cs.SD2026

Mitigation of multi-path propagation artefacts in acoustic targets with adaptive cepstral filtering

Lucas C. F. Domingos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth, Paulo E. Santos +1

Passive acoustic sensing is a cost-effective solution for monitoring moving targets such as vessels and aircraft, but its performance is hindered by complex propagation effects lik…

cs.LG2026

Improving Underwater Acoustic Classification Through Learnable Gabor Filter Convolution and Attention Mechanisms

Lucas Cesar Ferreira Domingos, Russell Brinkworth, Paulo Eduardo Santos +1

Remotely detecting and classifying underwater acoustic targets is critical for environmental monitoring and defence. However, the complexity of ship-radiated and environmental nois…

cs.RO2025

Towards Bio-inspired Heuristically Accelerated Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Underwater Multi-Agents Behaviour

Antoine Vivien, Thomas Chaffre, Matthew Stephenson +4

This paper describes the problem of coordination of an autonomous Multi-Agent System which aims to solve the coverage planning problem in a complex environment. The considered appl…

cs.RO2025★ 13 cited

Wake-Informed 3D Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using A* and Neural Network Approximations

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Stephen Turnock, Karl Sammut

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) encounter significant energy, control and navigation challenges in complex underwater environments, particularly during close-proximity operat…

cs.LG2024

A generalised novel loss function for computational fluid dynamics

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Paulo E. Santos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth +1

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are crucial in automotive, aerospace, maritime and medical applications, but are limited by the complexity, cost and computational re…

eess.SY2024★ 2 cited

Hybrid Navigation Acceptability and Safety

Benoit Clement, Marie Dubromel, Paulo E. Santos +3

Autonomous vessels have emerged as a prominent and accepted solution, particularly in the naval defence sector. However, achieving full autonomy for marine vessels demands the deve…

cs.RO2023

Sim-to-Real Transfer of Adaptive Control Parameters for AUV Stabilization under Current Disturbance

Thomas Chaffre, Jonathan Wheare, Andrew Lammas +4

Learning-based adaptive control methods hold the premise of enabling autonomous agents to reduce the effect of process variations with minimal human intervention. However, its appl…