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

Remotely operated vehicle (ROV)-based inspection, maintenance, and repairs (IMR)
services are costly because operations are traditionally executed by a hired subsea …

A key challenge in autonomous mobile manipulation is the ability to determine, in real time,
how to safely execute complex tasks when placed in unknown or changing world …

Underwater manipulation is one of the most remarkable ongoing research subjects in
robotics. Intervention autonomous underwater vehicles (I-AUVs) not only have to cope with …

This paper presents some of the results of the EU-funded project PANDORA—Persistent
Autonomy Through Learning Adaptation Observation and Re-planning. The project was …

This paper presents a path planner which exploits ocean energy to enable long-range
operation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in turbulent, cluttered, time varying …

The long term of this ongoing research has to do with increasing degree of autonomy for
robots involved in underwater intervention missions. Bearing in mind that the specific …

Energy awareness and fault tolerance are important aspects for extending the autonomy
levels of today's autonomous vehicles. With the aim of preparing the way for persistent …

This work introduces a low-cost energy measurement method and proposes a simple linear
model to estimate the vehicle energy consumption when navigating a given trajectory …

This paper is focused on improving the self-awareness of autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUVs) operating in unknown environments. A runtime estimation framework is introduced to …