| 2D | 2-dimensional |
| 2.5D | 2.5-dimensional |
| 3D | 3-dimensional |
| AGP | art gallery problem |
| AHRS | attitude and heading reference system |
| AUV | autonomous underwater vehicle |
| AUVs | autonomous underwater vehicles |
| CIRS | underwater robotics research center |
| CPP | coverage path planning |
| DOF | degree of freedom |
| DOFs | degrees of freedom |
| DVL | Doppler velocity log |
| FB | frontier-based |
| FOV | field of view |
| FOVs | fields of view |
| GPS | global positioning system |
| ICS | inevitable collision state |
| ICSs | inevitable collision states |
| LOS | line of sight |
| MAV | micro aerial vehicle |
| MAVs | micro aerial vehicles |
| NBV | next-best-view |
| OMPL | open motion planning library |
| PDN | perception-driven navigation |
| PID | proportional-integral-derivative |
| RA | reactive algorithm |
| RAs | reactive algorithms |
| ROS | robot operating system |
| ROV | remotely operated vehicle |
| ROVs | remotely operated vehicles |
| RIG | rapidly-exploring information gathering |
| RRT | rapidly-exploring random tree |
| RRT* | asymptotic optimal rapidly-exploring random tree |
| SAS | synthetic aperture sonar |
| SLAM | simultaneous localization and mapping |
| TSP | traveling salesman problem |
| UAV | unmanned aerial vehicle |
| UAVs | unmanned aerial vehicles |
| UdG | university of Girona |
| UGV | unmanned ground vehicle |
| UGVs | unmanned ground vehicles |
| USBL | ultra-short baseline |
| VICOROB | computer vision and robotics group |
| VP | view planning |