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Coordinated Formation Control of Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Pipeline Inspection
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2010 This paper addresses the control problem of inspecting underwater pipeline on the seabed, with coordinated multiple autonomous underwater vehicles in a formation. Based on the leader-follower strategy, the dedicated nonlinear path following controller is
Xianbo Xiang +2 more
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International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2017 Underwater robotics and imaging have emerged as an attractive field due to complications for human divers in a deepwater environment. Inspection of various installations in an underwater environment is carried out by underwater vehicles.
Amjad Khan +5 more
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Inspection and maintenance of industrial infrastructure with autonomous underwater robots
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 Underwater infrastructure, such as pipelines, requires regular inspection and maintenance including cleaning, welding of defects and valve-turning or hot-stabbing.
Franka Nauert +2 more
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Recognition and Tracking of an Underwater Pipeline from Stereo Images during AUV-Based Inspection
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 The inspection of condition of underwater pipelines (UPs) based on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) requires high accuracy of positioning while the AUV is moving along to the object being examined.
Valery Bobkov +2 more
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Profile Following for Inspection of Underwater Structures
Paladyn, 2013 We present a seabed profile estimation and following method for close proximity inspection of 3D underwater structures using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The presented method is used to determine a path allowing the AUV to pass its sensors over
Galceran Enric +2 more
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Underwater inspection and intervention dataset
CoRR, 2021 This paper presents a novel dataset for the development of visual navigation and simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms as well as for underwater intervention tasks. It differs from existing datasets as it contains ground truth for the vehicle's position captured by an underwater motion tracking system.
Tomasz Luczynski +7 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Net inspection in fish-farm cages is a daily task for divers. This task represents a high cost for fish farms and is a high-risk activity for human operators.
Salvador López-Barajas +5 more
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Virtual Underwater Datasets for Autonomous Inspections
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 Underwater Vehicles have become more sophisticated, driven by the off-shore sector and the scientific community’s rapid advancements in underwater operations. Notably, many underwater tasks, including the assessment of subsea infrastructure, are performed with the assistance of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). There have been recent breakthroughs
Ioannis Polymenis +3 more
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Underwater robotics – technical aspects on autonomous underwater inspection vehicle
Annals of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galaţi: Fascicle XI Shipbuilding, 2020 This article is devoted to a state of the art on mobile multi-robot systems in the underwater domain. It start with the history of underwater robots as well as their applications in various fields, then focus on underwater vehicles different categories ...
Aurel Dan Maimon
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Applications of Virtual Data in Subsea Inspections
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 This paper investigates the role that virtual environments can play in assisting engineers and divers when performing subsea inspections. We outline the current state of research and technology that is relevant to the development of effective virtual ...
Michael O’Byrne +3 more
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