Abstract:This paper focuses on Direct Policy Search (DPS) for cooperative path planning of a single beacon vehicle supporting Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) performing surveying missions. Due to lack of availability of GPS signals underwater, the position errors of the AUVs grow with time even though they are equipped with proprioceptive sensors for dead reckoning. One way to minimize this error is to have a moving beacon vehicle with good positioning data transmit its position acoustically from different locati… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.