Becker, Aaron T.2021-08-11December 22020-12December 2Portions of this document appear in: Garcia, Javier, Steban Soto, Arifa Sultana, Julien Leclerc, Miao Pan, and Aaron T. Becker. "Underwater Robot Localization Using Magnetic Induction: Noise Modeling and Hardware Validation." In Global Oceans 2020: Singapore–US Gulf Coast, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2020.https://hdl.handle.net/10657/8063Magnetic induction wireless communications are currently being studied as an alternative for short-range communications in underwater robotics and wireless sensor networks. We demonstrate several systems that use magnetic induction coil antennas for robot control and localization. We start with simulations that show a robot executing a controlled approach to a transmitting coil antenna. We describe the performance of our simulations when subjected to external noise. To determine the feasibility of our control and localization algorithms, we perform experiments in air and underwater. These experiments include a study on its design and implementation despite physical constraints.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. UH Libraries has secured permission to reproduce any and all previously published materials contained in the work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).Underwater RoboticsMagnetic InductionLocalization2021-08-11Thesisborn digital