Online Navigation Planning for Long-term Autonomous Operation of Underwater Gliders

ArXi:2602.19315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Underwater glider robots have become indispensable for ocean sampling, yet fully autonomous long-term operation remains rare in practice. Although stakeholders are calling for tools to manage increasingly large fleets of gliders, existing methods have seen limited adoption due to their inability to account for environmental uncertainty and operational constraints. In this work, we nstrate that uncertainty-aware online navigation planning can be deployed in real-world glider missions at scale.