In the last decade, the development of more compact and lightweight radiation detection
systems led to their application in handheld and small unmanned systems, particularly air …

Underwater robot positioning and navigation achieve autonomous underwater robot
movement based on the premise that positioning obtains the coordinates of the relative …

Disaster response, especially fire-fighting and rescue, is highly risky for firefighters engaged
in action. As a result, many robots intended for fire-fighting have been proposed. However, it …

This paper presents a strategy for field estimation and informative path planning towards
autonomous mapping and radiological characterization of distributed gamma radiation fields …

This paper details the system and methods developed to enable autonomous nuclear
radiation source localization and mapping using aerial robots in GPS-denied environments …

Underwater swimming robots permit remote access to over 70% of the Earth's surface that is
covered in water for a variety of scientific, environmental, tactical, or industrial purposes …

This article details the design, construction and implementation of a novel, spherical
unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) prototype for operations within confined …

Depth control is very important for underwater robot in nuclear power plant, especially when
the robot needs to perform special tasks at specific depths under the water. Aiming to realize …

In this article, we propose, implement, and evaluate a motion-based communication system
for field robots: robots that operate in dynamic, unstructured, outdoor environments. We …

Most of the long-reach inspection devices developed so far have a limitation in the reduction
of their diameter when their length is increased. This limitation is due to the technology used …