The application discloses a kind of based on hovering
underwater vehicle's
underwater unknown environment active mapping method, belong to
robot environment exploration technical field.The
underwater unknown environment active mapping method based on hovering
underwater vehicle provided by the application utilizes hovering
underwater vehicle to obtain the
environmental data of unknown area of ocean in cooperation with sensor, determines the best next viewpoint according to
information gain value, and determines the safe and feasible path to the best next viewpoint according to the cost of each adjacent node on the current tree as the parent node when the best next viewpoint is reached.Updating grid map in real time in this way, efficiently, quickly and accurately realize the construction and dynamic updating of map, and then assist
underwater vehicle to realize the navigation of target area, and has broad application prospect in underwater environment exploration task and underwater structure inspection based on underwater vehicle and similar tasks.