Informative Path Planning for AUV-based Underwater Terrain Exploration with a POMDP

Shi Zhang, Rongxin Cui, Weisheng Yan, Yinglin Li

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Abstract

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in underwater terrain exploration applications represent a topic area, and the interesting problem is planning paths to maximize the vehicle information gathered and combining this information to build a complete map. The Gaussian process (GP) is utilized as a basic environment model and updated using the Bayesian data fusion technique with sensor information. A path planning algorithm, which formulates the terrain exploration problem as the finite-horizon partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), is proposed to overcome the limitation of the planner converge to locally suboptimal solutions. In addition, a Monte Carlo Tree Search based on the motion primitives tree (MPT-MCTS) solver is developed to solve this POMDP. The effectiveness of the proposed method is explored in the simulation experiment, and its potential is demonstrated by comparing it with other optimization algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceeding - 2021 China Automation Congress, CAC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4756-4761
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665426473
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 China Automation Congress, CAC 2021 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Oct 202124 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameProceeding - 2021 China Automation Congress, CAC 2021

Conference

Conference2021 China Automation Congress, CAC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/10/2124/10/21

Keywords

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
  • Gaussian process
  • Informative path planning
  • Monte Carlo Tree Search
  • Partially observable Markov decision process

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