Motion planning for seabed monitoring by autonomous underwater vehicles

This thesis deals with mission planning for multi-robot seabed monitoring task with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). The overall goal of this work is to design a mission planner that ensures visiting all places in a given area and keeps the AUVs in operational state by charging from the seabed station. Key part of designed mission planner is also the motion planning. We propose two different randomized motion planners for long distance motion planning and for planning of the docking motion. Presented experiments verify the capabilities of individual motion planners and also the ability to plan the whole seabed monitoring mission with the designed mission planner.