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

arXiv:2602.19315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 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 demonstrate that uncertainty-aware online navigation plann