Advances in Marine Robotics Technologies — Strategic Applications and Programs

1990 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
James S. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Marine Robotics

scholarly journals Current scientific and technical challenges in Russian marine robotics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (390) ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
V. Khoroshev ◽  
◽  
O. Malyshev ◽  
L. Popov ◽  
Yu. Alexandrov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marine Robotics ◽  
Technical Challenges

FishBots: Bio-Inspired Marine Robots Give Students a Hands-On Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Consi ◽  
Dixia Fan ◽  
Gurvan Jodin
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Mechanics ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Freshman Seminar ◽  
Marine Robotics ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Underwater Propulsion ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Educational Paths

AbstractSimple bio-inspired marine robots were used as teaching tools to introduce students to concepts in fluid mechanics, marine robotics, and how biological swimming mechanisms can provide fertile ground for new ideas in underwater propulsion. These robots, termed FishBots, were used in two educational situations. The first was a project for two undergraduate summer interns at MIT Sea Grant. This experience proved that such robots could be developed by undergraduates under the time constraint of a 1-month internship. Building on that success, we used FishBots successfully in an undergraduate freshman seminar class at MIT. In one semester, 29 students built 13 FishBots, all were tested in the water and 11 successfully swam, meaning they moved in a roughly straight line. These educational experiences are described in this paper along with the design of several of the student-built FishBots. The paper concludes with future educational paths for the FishBot idea.

The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge: The First Outdoor Multi-domain Search and Rescue Robotics Competition—A Marine Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Ferri ◽  
Fausto Ferreira ◽  
Vladimir Djapic ◽  
Yvan Petillot ◽  
Marta Palau Franco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Fukushima Accident ◽  
Marine Robotics ◽  
Rescue Robotics ◽  
The World ◽  
Intervention Team ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe euRathlon project was an FP7-funded Coordination and Support Action (2013‐2015). Its main aim was to organize outdoor robotics competitions in realistic search and rescue response scenarios for cooperative land, sea, and air robots. Participant teams were requested to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. In the project's third year euRathlon culminated with the organization of the first outdoor multi-domain search and rescue robotics competition in the world: the euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge. Sea, air, and land robots were asked to cooperate acting as a robotic intervention team in a scenario simulating an industrial area ravaged by a tsunami. The Grand Challenge was held in Piombino, Italy, in the surroundings of the Tor del Sale power plant, from September 17 to 25. To prepare the teams for the Grand Challenge, two competitions, dedicated to land and marine robots, respectively, took place in 2013 and 2014. In all the competitions, a strong effort was made in benchmarking what led to meaningful and reasonable scoring principles. Workshops and educational activities complemented the competitions. In this paper, we will focus on the marine robotics competitions of euRathlon with a particular focus on the Grand Challenge. Both technical achievements and general results are presented. The results in terms of team participation and the fruitful effort in dissemination led to establish euRathlon Grand Challenge as the de facto leading search and rescue outdoor robotics competition in Europe.

scholarly journals Marine Robotics Competitions: a Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Fausto Ferreira ◽  
Gabriele Ferri
Keyword(s):  
Marine Robotics

scholarly journals Guest Editorial: Marine Robotics and Control Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-522
Author(s):  
Son-Cheol Yu ◽  
Antonio M. Pascoal ◽  
Jinwhan Kim
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Marine Robotics ◽  
And Control

Development of a Flexible Command and Control Software Architecture for Marine Robotic Applications

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian S. Bingham ◽  
Jeffrey M. Walls ◽  
Ryan M. Eustice
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Supervisory Control ◽  
Message Passing ◽  
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ◽  
Modular System ◽  
Port Security ◽  
Software Infrastructure ◽  
Marine Robotics ◽  
Robotic Applications

AbstractThis paper reports the implementation of a supervisory control framework and modular software architecture built around the lightweight communication and marshalling (LCM) publish/subscribe message passing system. In particular, we examine two diverse marine robotics applications using this modular system: (i) the development of an unmanned port security vehicle, a robotic surface platform to support first responders reacting to transportation security incidents in harbor environments, and (ii) the adaptation of a commercial off-the-shelf autonomous underwater vehicle (the Ocean-Server Iver2) for visual feature-based navigation. In both cases, the modular vehicle software infrastructures are based around the open-source LCM software library for low-latency, real-time message passing. To elucidate the real-world application of LCM in marine robotic systems, we present the software architecture of these two successful marine robotic applications and illustrate the capabilities and flexibilities of this approach to real-time marine robotics. We present benchmarking test results comparing the throughput of LCM with the Mission-Oriented Operating Suite, another robot software system popular in marine robotics. Experimental results demonstrate the capacity of the LCM framework to make large amounts of actionable information available to the operator and to allow for distributed supervisory control. We also provide a discussion of the qualitative tradeoffs involved in selecting software infrastructure for supervisory control.

scholarly journals Underwater Intervention Robotics: An Outline of the Italian National Project MARIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Casalino ◽  
Massimo Caccia ◽  
Stefano Caselli ◽  
Claudio Melchiorri ◽  
Gianluca Antonelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Robotic Systems ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
National Project ◽  
Marine Robotics ◽  
Experimental Systems ◽  
Strategic Objective ◽  
Operational Capabilities ◽  
Offshore Industry

AbstractThe Italian national project MARIS (Marine Robotics for Interventions) pursues the strategic objective of studying, developing, and integrating technologies and methodologies to enable the development of autonomous underwater robotic systems employable for intervention activities. These activities are becoming progressively more typical for the underwater offshore industry, for search-and-rescue operations, and for underwater scientific missions. Within such an ambitious objective, the project consortium also intends to demonstrate the achievable operational capabilities at a proof-of-concept level by integrating the results with prototype experimental systems.

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