Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) play a pivotal role in the exploration of marine resources. With the increasing complexity of underwater tasks, conventional torpedo-shaped AUVs exhibit significant limitations, particularly in complex and dynamic environments, due to restricted lateral translation and in-place rotation capabilities. To address these challenges, this letter introduces OpenAUV,...Show More
Underwater target localization uses real-time sensory measurements to estimate the position of underwater objects of interest, providing critical feedback information for underwater robots in tasks, such as obstacle avoidance, scientific exploration, and environmental monitoring. While acoustic sensing is the most acknowledged and commonly used method in underwater robots and possibly the only eff...Show More
A miniature robotic blimp, as one type of lighter-than-air aerial vehicle, has attracted increasing attention in the science and engineering field for its long flight duration and safe aerial locomotion. While a variety of miniature robotic blimps have been developed over the past decade, most of them utilize the buoyant lift and neglect the aerodynamic lift in their design, thus leading to a medi...Show More
