An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is an economical and safe tool that is well-suited
for search, investigation, identification, and salvage operations on the sea floor. Path …

Advancements in robotics and autonomous systems are being deployed nowadays in many
application domains such as search and rescue, industrial automation, domestic services …

Conventional high-rise building surface inspection is usually inefficient and requires the
inspectors to work at heights with high risk. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carrying …

Conventional visual bridge inspection methods are time consuming and may put the
inspector in dangerous situations. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently …

Inspection of ship hulls and marine structures using autonomous underwater vehicles has
emerged as a unique and challenging application of robotics. The problem poses rich …

The utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in survey and inspection of civil
infrastructure has been growing rapidly. However, computationally efficient solvers that find …

At present, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) mine countermeasure (MCM) surveys are
normally preplanned by operators using ladder or zig-zag paths. Such surveys are …

A novel motion planning algorithm for robotic bush trimming is presented. The algorithm is
based on an optimal route search over a graph. Differently from other works in robotic …

Underwater installations require regular inspection and maintenance. We are exploring the
idea of performing these tasks using an autonomous underwater vehicle, achieving …

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have been extensively used for open-sea
exploration. However, the map** or inspection of complex underwater structures, which …