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ROVON: An Ontology for Supporting Interoperability for Underwater Robots

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Underwater robotics produces diverse and complex streams of sensor, image, video, and navigational data under challenging environmental conditions, creating obstacles for seamless integration and interpretation.
Mansour Taheri Andani, Farhad Ameri
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Bioinspired Adaptive Artificial Cilia With Tunable Sensitivity and Dynamic Range for Airflow Monitoring in the Central Airway

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A magnetically reconfigurable airflow sensor integrated with an airway stent enables tunable sensitivity and dynamic sensing range. Airflow‐induced cantilever deformation generates resistance changes, while an external magnetic field modulates sensor stiffness, enhancing sensitivity at low airflow velocities and extending the sensing range at higher ...
Darren Wang, Ruijian Ge, Shuda Dong, Zhongming Lyu, Yusheng Wang, Nicholas Strymish, Hanwen Fan, Fabien Maldonado, Caitlin T. Demarest, Yuxiao Zhou, Xiaoguang Dong   +10 more
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Design of Control System for Underwater Inspection Robot in Hydropower Dam Structures

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
As critical infrastructure, hydropower dams require efficient and accurate detection of underwater structural surface defects to ensure their safety. This paper presents the design and implementation of a robotic control system specifically developed for
Bing Zhao, Shuo Li, Xiangbin Wang, Mingyu Yang, Xin Yu, Zhaoxu Meng, Gang Wan   +6 more
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Multiobjective Codesign Optimization of a Planar Pneumatic Artificial Muscle‐Based Snake‐Like Robot for Enhanced Agility and Energy Efficiency

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A codesign multiobjective optimization framework was developed to enhance the morphology and controller of a snake‐like robot driven by artificial muscles. It improved planar locomotion, agility, and power efficiency. The approach optimized link geometry and controller gains, revealing that shorter muscles near joints and longer linkages maximize ...
Ayla Valles, Mahdi Haghshenas‐Jaryani
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Inspection of Undersea Oil and Gas Pipelines by New Variable Thrust Vector Underwater Robotic Platform

نشریه مهندسی دریا, 2017
This paper presents a special underwater robot for subsea pipelines inspection which is used to transport extracted oil and gas from oil platforms to onshore facilities. Due to the high pressure in the deep sea and the long pipelines, it is impossible to
Ali Kadkhodaei, Reza Hasanzadeh Ghasemi
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Uncertainty-aware framework for reliable underwater bridge inspection with interpretable defect attribution

Developments in the Built Environment
Underwater bridge inspection is often degraded by environmental interference such as turbidity and illumination distortion, resulting in unreliable defect predictions and potentially misleading decisions.
Weihao Sun, Shitong Hou, Xiao Tan, Chen Fang, Zhishen Wu, Lihai Zhang   +5 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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DRIVE‐SAFE: Data‐Driven Robustness and Informed Validation for Evolving Specifications via Formal Evaluation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
DRIVE‐SAFE evaluates learning‐based, black‐box autonomous driving policies against evolving temporal safety requirements using Signal Temporal Logic robustness metrics. It aggregates distributional robustness measures with domain‐informed weights to guide iterative retraining.
Kristy Sakano, Jianyu An, Dinesh Manocha, Huan Xu   +3 more
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Underwater Robotics: Surface Cleaning Technics, Adhesion and Locomotion Systems

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2016
Underwater robots are being developed for various applications ranging from inspection to maintenance and cleaning of submerged surfaces and constructions. These platforms should be able to travel on these surfaces.
Houssam Albitar, Kinan Dandan, Anani Ananiev, Ivan Kalaykov   +3 more
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The Use of Terrestrial and Maritime Autonomous Vehicles in Nonintrusive Object Inspection

Sensors, 2022
Traditional nonintrusive object inspection methods are complex or extremely expensive to apply in certain cases, such as inspection of enormous objects, underwater or maritime inspection, an unobtrusive inspection of a crowded place, etc. With the latest
Dmytro Mamchur, Janis Peksa, Antons Kolodinskis, Maksims Zigunovs   +3 more
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