Simultaneous Survey and Inspection with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

James McMahon,Riley Parker,Philip Baldoni,Stuart Anstee,Erion Plaku,James McMahon,Riley Parker,Philip Baldoni,Stuart Anstee,Erion Plaku

As the future of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) deployments tends to multi-vehicle systems, new approaches in coordination and control are needed. In this work, we consider the problem of simultaneous survey and inspection where one vehicle dynamically discovers objects while another vehicle must inspect as many of the objects as possible over the course of the mission. This requires a fully ...