Nathalie Bauschmann

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Nathalie Bauschmann is a robotics researcher at the forefront of micro autonomous underwater vehicles (μAUVs), specializing in hydrobatics—the agile, fully-actuated control of small-scale robots in confined aquatic environments. Her work addresses critical challenges in guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) for these platforms, with a focus on enabling autonomous inspection missions in hazardous settings like nuclear storage ponds and industrial tanks. Bauschmann’s most cited paper, “HippoCampusX – A Hydrobatic Open-source Micro AUV for Confined Environments” (27 citations), introduces a low-cost, open-source platform that has become a foundational tool for the field. She has also advanced vision-based localization with her evaluation of underwater AprilTag systems (2 citations) and developed novel multi-robot coordination strategies, such as image-based visual servoing for heterogeneous teams (6 citations). Her work on reconfigurable micro robots (2 citations) pushes toward full actuation, allowing for precise hovering and inspection. With a total of over 60 citations across her key publications, Bauschmann’s contributions are shaping the future of micro-robotics for safety-critical underwater missions, making her a leading voice in the emerging domain of hydrobatics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   HippoCampusX – A Hydrobatic Open-source Micro AUV for Confined Environments

   27 citations · 2020
2. 2
   Towards Micro Robot Hydrobatics: Vision-based Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Agile Underwater Vehicles in Confined Environments

   25 citations · 2020
3. 3
   Image-Based Visual Servoing Switchable Leader-follower Control of Heterogeneous Multi-agent Underwater Robot System

   6 citations · 2023
4. 4
   Evaluation of Underwater AprilTag Localization for Highly Agile Micro Underwater Robots

   2 citations · 2023
5. 5
   Towards Full Actuation: Reconfigurable Micro Underwater Robots

   2 citations · 2023

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