Publications by Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems for Aquatic Environmental Sensing

Bringing advantages of parallelism and robustness, distributed robotic systems have become an active subject of research since many years. Yet, the progress in that direction with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has been limited. This project aims at ...

EPFL2021

Coordinated Path Planning for Surface Acoustic Beacons for Supporting Underwater Localization

Alcherio Martinoli, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

Accurate localization is one of the biggest challenges in underwater robotics. The primary reasons behind that are unavailability of satellite-based positioning below the surface, and lack of clear features in natural water bodies for visually aided locali ...

2021

Online Kinematic and Dynamic Parameter Estimation for Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles

Alcherio Martinoli, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

One of the main challenges in underwater robot localization is the scarcity of external positioning references. Therefore, accurate inertial localization in between external position updates is crucial for applications such as underwater environmental samp ...

2021

Distributed Cooperative Localization with Efficient Pairwise Range Measurements

Alcherio Martinoli, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

We present a method based on covariance intersection for cooperative localization with pairwise range-only relative measurements. Our method was designed for underwater robots equipped with an acoustic communication and ranging system. Range measurements a ...

2021

Easily Deployable Underwater Acoustic Navigation System for Multi-Vehicle Environmental Sampling Applications

Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

Water as a medium poses a number of challenges for robots, limiting the progress of research in underwater robotics vis-a-vis ground or aerial robotics. The primary challenges are satellite based positioning and radio communication being unusable due to hi ...

IEEE2019

A Flexible Navigation Support System for a Team of Underwater Robots

Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

2019

Autonomous Feature Tracing and Adaptive Sampling in Real-World Underwater Environments

Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

Applications of robots for gathering data in underwater environments has been limited due to the challenges posed by the medium. We have developed a miniature, agile, easy to carry and deploy Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) equipped with a suite of sen ...

IEEE2018