Disturbance-aware Motion Planning for Over-actuated Underwater Vehicles Exploiting Actuation Redundancy for High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2607.07139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robots often operate near delicate targets where high-power thrusters resuspend sediments and induce turbulence, degrading image quality at the sensor input. Conventional controllers optimize vehicle-centric objectives, such as tracking and stability, without accounting for the impact of actuation on sensing. We address this actuation-to-perception coupling by exploiting redundancy in over-actuated platforms. For an eight-thruster ROV, m...