Improvement of Multi-AUV Cooperation through Teammate Verification

Current methods for Multi-AUV cooperation suffer in low communication environments. State of the art methods employ auctioneering or planning to determine a single AUV’s task. These systems require communication for efficient task selection. Most strategies assume a teammate is inoperable if a communication timeout is reached which reduces overall team efficiency. Including teammate prediction has been shown to mitigate efficiency degeneration due to low communication. This position paper posits that multi-AUV cooperation efficiency will improve with the combination of robust teammate prediction along with verification using be-