• Adaptive path planning for depth‐constrained bathymetric mapping with an autonomous surface vessel 

      Wilson, Troy; Williams, Stefan Bernard
      Published 2017-01-01
      This paper describes the design, implementation, and testing of a suite of algorithms to enable depth‐constrained autonomous bathymetric (underwater topography) mapping by an autonomous surface vessel (ASV). Given a target ...
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    • Bounding Drift in Cooperative Localisation Through the Sharing of Local Loop Closures 

      Toohey, Lachlan; Pizarro, Oscar; Williams, Stefan Bernard
      Published 2018-01-01
      Handling loop closures and intervehicle observations in cooperative robotic scenarios remains a challenging problem due to data consistency, bandwidth limitations and increased computation requirements. This paper develops ...
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    • Multimodal learning and inference from visual and remotely sensed data 

      Rao, Dushyant; De Deuge, Mark; Nourani-Vatani, Navid; Williams, Stefan Bernard; Pizarro, Oscar
      Published 2016-01-01
      Autonomous vehicles are often tasked to explore unseen environments, aiming to acquire and understand large amounts of visual image data and other sensory information. In such scenarios, remote sensing data may be available ...
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    • Towards Adaptive Benthic Habitat Mapping 

      Shields, Jackson; Pizarro, Oscar; Williams, Stefan Bernard
      Published 2020-01-01
      Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly being used to support scientific research and monitoring studies. One such application is in benthic habitat mapping where these vehicles collect seafloor imagery that ...
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