Enabling Autonomous Capabilities in Underwater Robotics
Junaed Sattar, Gregory Dudek, Olivia Chiu, Ioannis Rekleitis, Philippe Giguere, Alec Mills, Nicolas Plamondon, Chris Prahacs, Yogesh Girdhar, Meyer Nahon, John-Paul Lobos
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2008.
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Abstract: Underwater operations present unique challenges and opportunities for robotic applications. These can be attributed in part to limited sensing capabilities, and to lo- comotion behaviours requiring control schemes adapted to specific tasks or changes in the environment. From enhancing teleoperation procedures, to providing high-level instruction, all the way to fully autonomous operations, enabling autonomous capabilities is fundamental for the successful deployment of underwater robots. This paper presents an overview of the approaches used during underwater sea trials in the coral reefs of Barbados, for two amphibious mobile robots and a set of underwater sensor nodes. We present control mechanisms used for maintaining a preset trajectory during enhanced teleoperations and discuss their experimental results. This is followed by a discussion on amphibious data gathering experi- ments conducted on the beach. We then present a tetherless underwater communication approach based on pure vision for high-level control of an underwater vehicle. Finally the construction details together with preliminary results from a set of distributed underwater sensor nodes are outlined.
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@inproceedings{RekleitisIROS2009b,
author = {Junaed Sattar and Gregory Dudek and Olivia Chiu and
Ioannis Rekleitis and Philippe Giguere and Alec Mills and
Nicolas Plamondon and Chris Prahacs and Yogesh Girdhar and
Meyer Nahon and John-Paul Lobos},
title = {Enabling Autonomous Capabilities in Underwater Robotics},
booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems (IROS)},
pages = {3628 - 3634},
year = {2008},
address = {Nice, France}
}
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