Station Keeping with an Autonomous Underwater Glider Using a Predictive Model of Ocean Currents. Branch, A., Troesch, M., Flexas, M., Thompson, A., Ferrara, J., Chao, Y., & Chien, S. In AI in the Oceans and Space Workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), Melbourne, Australia, August, 2017.
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We investigate the use of an autonomous underwater glider as a platform for a virtual mooring. Our approach uses a simple vehicle motion model, a predictive model of ocean currents and a greedy search algorithm in order to simulate possible actions available to the vehicle and select an action to minimize the distance from the target point. Results from a 19 day experiment in October 2016 near Monterey Bay are presented where we test our control algorithm as well as investigate the effect of a glider's dive profile on its ability to act as a virtual mooring.

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