Mapping 3D Underwater Environments with Smoothed Submaps

This paper presents a technique for improved mapping of complex underwater environments. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are becoming valuable tools for inspection of underwater infrastructure, and can create 3D maps of their environment using high-frequency profiling sonar. However, the quali...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kaess, Michael, Leonard, John J., VanMiddlesworth, Mark Allen, Hover, Franz S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature America, Inc 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119864
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-7633