Inexpensive and accessible sensors are accelerating data acquisition in animal ecology.
These technologies hold great potential for large-scale ecological understanding, but are …

This paper outlines the specifications and basic design approach taken on the development
of the Girona 500, an autonomous underwater vehicle whose most remarkable characteristic …

While commercially available AUVs are routinely used in survey missions, a new set of
applications exists which clearly demand intervention capabilities. The maintenance of …

We have established an Australia-wide observation program that exhibits recent
developments in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems to deliver precisely …

In this field note, we detail the operations and discuss the results of an experiment
conducted in the unstructured environment of an underwater cave complex using an …

This paper presents an automated solution to the visual inspection problem of hydroelectric
dams. A small autonomous underwater vehicle, controllable in four degrees of freedom …

Starting in January 2009, the RAUVI (Reconfigurable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for
Intervention Missions) project is a 3-year coordinated research action funded by the Spanish …

This paper proposes a pose-based algorithm to solve the full simultaneous localization and
map** problem for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) navigating in unknown and …

Robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely
dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into human en-ronments and …

We present an approach for navigating in unknown environments while, simultaneously,
gathering information for inspecting underwater structures using an autonomous underwater …