This paper explores the forming-up, robustness of the ensuing formation and coordinated movement of autonomous, non-communicating submerged vehicles (AUV) planning their trajectories using a virtual potential fields method. The behavior and characteristic merits and problems of the proposed scheme, which plans the trajectory on the basis of AUV kinematics is tested in 2D simulations. A brief commentary on further avenues of research and improvement in order to make the method applicable to hardware-in-the-loop usage is given.