Preliminary study on cooperative localization for AUVs

This paper focuses on cooperative localization for multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (multi-AUVs) and summarizes the research progress in recent years, including 1) The advancement of the concept cooperative localization 2) Classify the existing multi-AUV team structure 3) Analyze the algorithms of multi-AUV cooperative localization with different structures 4) Present the key issues in underwater multi AUV cooperative localization and preliminary forecast for future development.