This work provides a review of compression techniques that can be applied in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Intervention, such as the one designed for projects RAUVI, FP7 TRIDENT and TRITON. The review focuses on Progressive Image Compression and Transmission, presenting a comparative analysis of further work that can be applied in this context. Palabras clave: Autonomous Manipulation, Unde...

The aim of the EU-project "Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Co3AUVs)" is to develop, implement and test advanced cognitive systems for coordination and cooperative control of multiple AUVs. Several aspects are investigated including 3D perception and mapping, cooperative situation awareness, deliberation and navigation as well as behavioral control strictly link...

New forms of navigation aids for underwater vehicles are enabled through the use of acoustic communications. Both the content and form of the message may be used to estimate range, bearing, range rate, geo-location, and time. Accurate range estimates are available via a conventional 2-way method, but the transmitted signal also supports high precision bearing estimation and highly accurate rang...

The article addresses comparison of fuzzy BKproduct approach with A* search algorithm for optimal path finding of the autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The technique is designed to accomplish two missions: obstacle avoidance using ARTMAP and fuzzy BK-product and comparison of optimal path finding with A* search algorithm. In the first mission, underwater obstacle avoidance technique has al...

There are concerns about the impact that global warming will have on our environment, and which will inevitably result in expanding deserts and rising water levels. While a lot of underwater vehicles are utilized, AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) were considered and chosen, as the most suitable tool for conduction survey concerning these global environmental pro...

Robotic vehicles working in new, unexplored environments must be able to locate themselves in the environment while constructing a picture of the objects in the environment that could act as obstacles that would prevent the vehicles from completing their desired tasks. In enclosed environments, underwater range sensors based off of acoustics suffer performance issues due to reflections. Additio...

The paper addresses the problem of making a set of vehicles follow a a set of given spatial paths at required speeds, while ensuring that they reach and maintain a desired formation pattern. Problems of this kind arise in a number of practical applications involving ground and underwater robots. The paper summarizes and brings together in a unified framework previous results obtained by the aut...

Submarine inspections and surveys require underwater vehicles to operate in deep waters efficiently, safely reliably. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles employing advanced navigation control systems present several advantages. Robust algorithms novel improvements positioning are needed optimize operations. This paper proposes a new general formulation of this problem together with basic approach fo...

A recent concern in marine robotics is to consider the deployment of fleets of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs). Multiple vehicles with heterogeneous capabilities have several advantages over a single vehicle system, and in particular the potential to accomplish tasks faster and better than a single vehicle. This paper addresses in this context the pr...

The undersides of floating ice shelves and sea in the Antarctic Arctic are among least accessible environments on Earth. interactions between shelves, ice, ocean considerable scientific interest. In order to fully understand complex picture not just its surface, it is quite necessary map underside comprehend full context growth decay patterns. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) rapidly becom...