Swarm robotics is a promising approach for the coordination of large numbers of robots.
While previous studies have shown that evolutionary robotics techniques can be applied to …

Educational robotics programs have become popular in most developed countries and are
becoming more and more prevalent in the develo** world as well. Robotics is used to …

This paper proposes a pose-based algorithm to solve the full Simultaneous Localization And
Map** (SLAM) problem for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), navigating in an …

High accuracy underwater inspections are getting more and more important in the
underwater industry where time and cost optimization represent nowadays the main …

The availability of relatively capable and inexpensive hardware components has made it
feasible to consider large-scale systems of autonomous aquatic drones for maritime tasks. In …

This paper reports the development of a lightweight remotely operated vehicle that performs
underwater excavation work for archaeological surveys. Discovering underwater artifacts is …

Collection of 3D data in archaeology is a long-standing practice. Traditionally, the focus of
these data has been visualization as opposed to analysis. Three-dimensional data are often …

This review comprehensively covers the development of viable unmanned underwater
vehicles based on their technical capabilities, in particular those designed to conduct …