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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
<02> Originality: Presented an algorithm for cooperative AUV navigation using acoustic modems which is robust to packet loss and maintains consistency by continuously enumerating the most likely solution set of the AUV trajectories.
Significance: This publication was the first to deal with the AUV navigation supported by active mobile acoustic beacons. Additionally this work also overviews issues of connectivity and consistency, including demonstrating that a naive application of Kalman filtering is unsuitable in this domain.
Rigour: Published in the most rigorous international robotics journal (IJRR) with support from significant multi-year field experimentation.