Research on Autonomy

Students, staff, and faculty contribute broadly to autonomy, control, and navigation.  A major emphasis for the Center is multi-agent autonomy.  With access to teams of high-performance yet low-cost AUVs, we are able to demonstrate our latest developments in the field.

Selected recent publications

S. Sinha, M. Farhood, and D. J. Stilwell, “Control design and analysis for autonomous underwater vehicles using integral quadratic constraints,” Control Engineering Practice, vol. 154, p. 106142, 2025.

Y. Gao, H. Yetkin, J. McMahon, and D. J. Stilwell, “Prediction of acoustic communication performance for AUVs using Gaussian process classification,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), 2024.

B. Biggs, D. J. Stilwell, H. Yetkin, and J. McMahon, “Efficient feature mapping using a collaborative team of AUVs,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), 2024.

D. I. Oesterheld, D. J. Stilwell, A. J. Kurdila, and J. Guo, “A model reference adaptive controller based on operator-valued kernel functions,” in Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, (Singapore), 2023.