Marine operations required to transfer technicians and equipment represent a significant
proportion of the total cost of offshore wind. The profile of sites being considered for floating …

The structural health of underwater infrastructure such as bridges, dams, and pipelines are
constantly degrading due to aging, fatigue, unexpected loads, and environmental wear and …

Structural health monitoring (SHM) plays an increasingly vital role in guaranteeing the
operation success of marine and offshore (MO) structures while reducing their risks of …

Mass manufactured, biologically inspired soft robots are needed for safe robot-animal
interactions. The key challenges are the design and manufacture of high-performance …

This paper proposes a cooperative online target detection methodology by multiple
autonomous underwater vehicles (Multi-AUV) equipped with the side-scan sonar (SSS) …

Traditional object detection methods cannot effectively identify underwater objects with
complex backgrounds, and it is difficult to fully obtain the details of small-scale underwater …

The quality of unmanned surface vehicle (USV) local path planning directly affects its safety
and autonomy performance. The USV local path planning might easily be trapped into local …

This paper presents the development of a portable autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)
named Shark, along with the design of its hovering control system for vision-based …

The hydrodynamic performance and the way to reduce the drag and increase the motion
stability for a newly developed hovering autonomous underwater vehicle, a disk-shaped …

This study proposes two novel prescribed performance terminal sliding surfaces (PPTSSs)
to address the fixed time stable bilateral teleoperation issue for a class of underwater …