IEEE-OES AUV2026 Technical Programme ( Direct link )

Time
Day 1 (Tuesday 1st September)
Day 2 (Wednesday 2nd September)
Day 3 (Thursday 3rd September)
08:00
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11:00
12:00
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16:00
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18:00
19:00
20:00
21:00
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Registration: Snacks & Exhibits
Keynote: Prof Gwyn Griffiths MBE
Autosub under ice: A story of large risks, great people & great science > Click for details
Session 1: Advanced Operations
Speakers: Gunzel • Hegrenas • Consensi
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Lunch
Exhibits & Posters
Keynote: Dan Hook
USVs – 25 year recap & 5 year look ahead
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Session 2: Intelligent Missions
Speakers: Krogstad • Djauhari • Franceschi
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Networking Break
Session 3: Novel Systems & Operations
Speakers: Sakai • Bucci • Ozkahraman
Wehbe • Odenwald • Meurer
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Coach Transport
NOCS to Southampton City Art Gallery > Click for information about the venue
Panel: Marine Autonomy’s Journey – Overlooked or Overhyped Through Different Lenses?
Facilitator: Claire Asher
Panelists: Gwyn Griffiths • Emma Curtis
Dan Hook • Sara Aldhaheri • Edith-Clare Hall
Ice-breaker Reception
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Arrival
Session 4: Vehicle Design & Control
Speakers: Hongu • Toohey • Jakuba
Hamamatsu • Prabha Chandra
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Break
Session 5: Planning & Multi-system Coordination
Speakers: Pizarro • Baxter
Shimono • Sekimori • Kasparavičiūtė
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Break
Session 6: Intelligent Sensing & Awareness
Speakers: Mercado • Bonin-Font • Shields
Liang • Bodenmann
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Partner Spotlight: Sonardyne Int. • Cellula Robotics
Poster & Exhibit Luncheon Board A - Advanced Operation & Multi-system Coordination: Mahmoudian • Tebcherani • Gajski • Yew • Mai • Wei Board B - Novel Systems & Vehicle Designs: Fernandes • Takahashi • Schumann Larson • Bolhuis • Colony • Rodriguez • Kakami • Ramachandran Board C – Sensing & Environmental Monitoring:
Bekki • Chaloux • Bhayani • Sayed • Liang • Morgan Board D – Autonomy, Control & Software:McGinley • Posluszny • Rezayan • Von Ellenrieder• Zhou • De Kruif • Liu Exhibits & MARS Facility Tours (Pre-booked)
Session 7: Advanced Autonomy
Speakers: López-Barajas • Shemet
Abdelgayed • Marinelli • Grimaldi
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Break
Session 8: Risk, Reliability & Behaviour
Speakers: Martin • Halba
Darvariu • Kutin • Ellis
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Coach Transport

NOCS to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
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Gala Dinner: Onboard HMS Warrior

IEEE OES Awards: Rising Star Award • Lifetime Achievement Award
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Coach Transport
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to NOCS
Arrival
Session 9: Navigation & Sensing 1
Speakers: Mahmoudian • Mane
Zhang • Topini • Durão
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Break
Session 10: Navigation & Sensing 2
Speakers: Koken • Meinken
Upadhyay • Fenton
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Break
Session 11: Control & Cognitive Architectures
Speakers: Troni • Muntaner
Cecchi • Grimaldi • Buchholz
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Lunch
Exhibits & Posters
Session 12: Calibration, Integration & Protocols
Speakers: Slipogor • Kim
Jones • Gallimore
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Wrap Up: AUV2028 Announcement

Poster Boards

Board A – Advanced Operation & Multi-system Coordination (Linked Sessions 1, 5, 7)

PA-1 Mahmoudian - Scalable Autonomous Underwater Docking on a Hovering AUV for Persistent Operations
PA-2 Tebcherani - Fleet Size-Mobility Trade-offs for Passive Intermittent Acoustic Target Detection Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
PA-3 Gajska - A Simulation and Field Study Analysis of Cooperative Range-Aided Localization Strategies for Compact, Low-Cost AUV Teams
PA-4 Yew - Low-cost, High-Precision Multi-AUV System for Close-range Coordinated Observations
PA-5 Mai - Opto-Acoustic Sensing Payload for Leader-Follower AUV System
PA-6 Wei - Inter-Platform Coordination for Estimating Oceanic Velocity Gradients Using Lagrangian Floats
Board B – Novel Systems & Vehicle Designs (Linked Sessions 3, 4)

PB-1 Fernandes - Modeling and Nonlinear Control Design for a Small Hydrobatic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
PB-2 Takahashi - Development of a Self-rotating Cylindrical ASV for Wave Height Observation
PB-3 Schurmann Larsen - Systematic Design and Conceptualization of an Automated Seagrass Planter
PB-4 Bolhuis - A Modular Hydraulic Micro Manipulator for One-Person Deployable Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
PB-5 Colony - Novel Ballast System Design using ABENICS Mechanism
PB-6 Rodriguez - MOLA AUV: Toward Scalable Near-Terrain Ocean Exploration with a Cost-Effective, Agile Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
PB-7 Kakami - Redesign from 3,500m-class AUV to 8,000m-class AUV
PB-8 Ramachandran - Design, Development, and Experimental Analysis of a Dual Flapping Robotic Fish
Board C – Sensing & Environmental Monitoring (Linked Sessions 2, 6, 9, 10)

PC-1 Bekki - Sperm whale localisation using a compact hydrophone array on an underwater glider
PC-2 Chaloux - Autonomous Optical Surveying of Atlantic Sea Scallops Using Long-Range AUVs
PC-3 Bhayani - Communication-Efficient Coral Reef Monitoring Framework for AUVs using SfM and NeRF Pipelines
PC-4 Sayed - Robustness Verification of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-based Plankton Classifier
PC-5 Liang - Investigating Location-Regularised Self-Supervised Feature Learning for Seafloor Visual Imagery
PC-6 Morgan - Explaining Uncertainty in Bayesian Multimodal AUV Habitat Mapping Using SHAP and Operational Metadata
Board D – Autonomy, Control & Software (Linked Sessions 4, 8, 11, 12)

PD-1 McGinley - Frontseat-Backseat Control Architecture for AUVs: Enabling Mission-Specific Autonomy
PD-2 Posłuszny - Control Problem Formulation for Collaborative UxV Systems for Subsea Infrastructure Inspection
PD-3 Rezayan - Interpretable Physics-Informed Hydrodynamic Derivative Identification for Autonomous Marine Vehicles Using Virtual Sea Trials and Symbolic Residuals
PD-4 Von Ellenrieder - Modified Second Order Sliding Mode Observer for Acoustically-aided State Estimation of AUVs
PD-5 Zhou - An Encoder-based Modeler-Actor Network for Learning-based Low-level AUV Pose Control
PD-6 De Kruif - Autonomous Monopile Inspection in a Turbulent Wake
PD-7 Liu - Near-Bottom Tracking Control of an X-Rudder AUV with a Bow Rudder