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

This paper presents a survey on optical sensors and methods for 3D reconstruction in
underwater environments. The techniques to obtain range data have been listed and …

Abstract Purpose of Review Research in underwater manipulation has mostly focused on
solving individual parts of the manipulation challenge; however, we believe a systemic …

This paper presents experimental results using a newly developed 3D underwater laser
scanner mounted on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for real‐time simultaneous …

The underwater structured light vision system has the characteristics of a large amount of
information, high measurement accuracy, and good robustness, which has attracted the …

Underwater 3-D perception is crucial for autonomous manipulation and mapping. Using a
mirror-galvanometer system to steer a laser line projector and using triangulation with a …

A visual tracking system is essential as a basis for visual servoing, autonomous navigation,
path planning, robot-human interaction and other robotic functions. To execute various tasks …

TRIDENT is the official acronym used for a funded European project entitled:“Marine Robots
and Dexterous Manipulation for Enabling Autonomous Underwater Multipurpose …

In this study, a laser line auto-scanning system was designed to perform underwater close-
range 3D reconstructions with high accuracy and resolution. The system changes the laser …

As a kind of visual detection technology, 3D structured light measurement technology has
the advantages of high accuracy, rapid measurement, and active control, which is widely …