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Development of dam inspection underwater robot

Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics, 2019
Kazuo Ishii, Hiroyasu Hirai
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AUV SLAM and experiments using a mechanical scanning forward-looking sonar [PDF]

, 2012
Navigation technology is one of the most important challenges in the applications of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) which navigate in the complex undersea environment.
ArulamPalam, Blanco, Bo He, Bosse, Durrant-Whyte, Durrant-Whyte, Guivant, He, He, Kwak, Kwak, Leonard, Maybeck, Minghui Li, Murphy, Rui Nian, Schon, Shujing Zhang, Smith, Smith, Thrun, Thrun, Thrun, Tianhong Yan, Walter, Wilfong, Xiao Feng, Yan Liang, Zhang, Zhou   +29 more
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Formation Control of Multiple UUVs Based on GRU-KF with Communication Packet Loss

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
In response to the problem of decreased collaborative control performance in underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs) with communication packet loss, a GRU-KF method for multi-UUV control that integrates a gated recurrent unit (GRU) and a Kalman filter (KF ...
Juan Li, Rui Luo, Honghan Zhang, Zhenyang Tian   +3 more
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Lightweight underwater robot developed for archaeological surveys and excavations

ROBOMECH Journal, 2023
This paper reports the development of a lightweight remotely operated vehicle that performs underwater excavation work for archaeological surveys. Discovering underwater artifacts is generally difficult because they are in high risk areas and are often ...
Shohei Hotta, Yusuke Mitsui, Mizuki Suka, Norimitsu Sakagami, Sadao Kawamura   +4 more
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On-the-go machine vision sensing of cotton plant geometric parameters: first results [PDF]

, 2008
Plant geometrical parameters such as internode length (i.e. the distance between successive branches on the main stem) indicate water stress in cotton.
McCarthy, Cheryl, Hancock, Nigel, Raine, Steven   +2 more
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Dynamic Target Hunting Under Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Motion Planning Based on Improved Dynamic Window Approach (DWA)

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
A dynamic distributed target hunting method is proposed for the problem of distributed moving target hunting by multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).
Juan Li, Houtong Lu, Honghan Zhang, Zihao Zhang   +3 more
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Collision Avoidance of Moving Obstacles for Underwater Robots [PDF]

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2006
A fuzzy logic for autonomous navigation of underwater robot is proposed in this paper. The VFF(Virtual Force Field) algorithm, which is widely used in the field of mobile robot, is modified for application to the autonomous navigation of underwater robot.
KWON KYOUNG YOUB, Cho Jeongmok, Kwon Sung-Ha, Joh Joongseon   +3 more
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A Novel Path Control Algorithm for Networked Underwater Robot

Journal of Robotics, 2018
Under the network environment, the traditional control method of underwater Robot path has the disadvantages of low control accuracy, large error, and inefficiency. This paper proposes a novel path control method for underwater Robots based on the NURBS (
Minghong She, Liyu Tian
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Curiosity Based Exploration for Learning Terrain Models

, 2013
We present a robotic exploration technique in which the goal is to learn to a visual model and be able to distinguish between different terrains and other visual components in an unknown environment.
Dudek, Gregory, Girdhar, Yogesh, Whitney, David   +2 more
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Accurate position tracking with a single UWB anchor

, 2020
Accurate localization and tracking are a fundamental requirement for robotic applications. Localization systems like GPS, optical tracking, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are used for daily life activities, research, and commercial ...
Beltrame, Giovanni, Cao, Yanjun, Knoll, Alois, Li, Rui, Yang, Chenhao   +4 more
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