Josefine Severholt

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Josefine Severholt is a robotics researcher specializing in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for marine aquaculture and cyber-physical systems. Her work focuses on enabling efficient, agile underwater robots—termed "hydrobatic AUVs"—for real-world ocean applications. She made key contributions to the development of a simulation framework for experimental AUVs, including a novel generic 6-DOF added mass formulation for arbitrary underwater vehicles based on semi-empirical methods (14 citations). Severholt led the design and field demonstration of a cyber-physical system for hydrobatic AUVs, integrating sensors, actuators, and computing for autonomous operation (25 citations). Her most cited work (29 citations) presents a system for autonomous seaweed farm inspection using an underwater robot, addressing operational challenges in the emerging large-scale seaweed aquaculture industry on the Swedish west coast. This research bridges robotics and sustainable ocean production, demonstrating practical field deployments. With over 68 total citations across her top papers, Severholt’s contributions advance autonomous marine robotics for environmental monitoring and aquaculture, highlighting her impact on real-world ocean engineering challenges.