In recent years underwater robotics has become a major area of research owing to the development of many diverse technologies. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are used today for exploration, pipeline monitoring, military reconnaissance and other scientific tasks. AUVs can also be used effectively to teach principles in many disciplines of science ranging from physics to robotics. Any good...

This paper reports on an exact, real-time solution for server-client cooperative localization over a faulty and extremely bandwidth-limited underwater communication channel. Our algorithm, termed the origin state method, enables a ‘server’ vehicle to broadcast its navigation information to multiple ‘client’ vehicles over a bandwidthlimited and faulty communication channel. The server’s broadcas...