Future Trends in Marine Robotics [TC Spotlight]

Zhang, Fumin; Marani, Giacomo; Smith, Ryan N.; Choi, Hyun Taek

doi:10.1109/mra.2014.2385561

Cited by 131 publications

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“…Refer to [20], [21] for surveys on the evolution and trends of marine robotics. However, marine robots are still limited in their ability to operate robustly for long periods of time in certain situations [1] and environments such as riverine settings.…”

Section: Waterborne Environmental Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

A critical survey on marsupial robotic teams for environmental monitoring of water bodies

Marques

Lourenço

Mendonca

et al. 2015

OCEANS 2015 - Genova

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A robust maintenance of ecosystems demands for highly accurate and frequent monitoring of their status. The extension and remoteness of some environments renders their human-based monitoring extremely difficult. Riverine environments are a notorious example, as their sampling requires to bear into account both streams and riverbanks. The relevance of monitoring riverine environments is magnified by the intricate interactions that occur between river waters and coastal waters. This article provides a critical survey of existing solutions using robots for environmental monitoring of water bodies. Based on the survey, this article argues that autonomous robotic marsupial systems are especially adequate for the tasks at hand. Lessons learned, as well as future avenues on the application of marsupial robotic teams to environmental monitoring, are laid out in this article.

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Section: Waterborne Environmental Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

A critical survey on marsupial robotic teams for environmental monitoring of water bodies

Marques

Lourenço

Mendonca

et al. 2015

OCEANS 2015 - Genova

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“…As the ocean attracts great attention on environmental issues and resources, the need for and use of underwater operational systems become more and more demanding [1][2][3]. With significant advances of different types of mobile robots and manipulators in a bunch of application fields [4][5][6][7][8][9], marine robots including unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) [10][11][12], remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) [13,14], and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) [15][16][17][18] have been well developed in last decades [19][20][21][22].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Submerged Floating Operational System for Robotic Manipulation

Zhang

Chemori

et al. 2018

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In this work, a virtual submerged floating operational system (VSFOS) based on parallel and serial robotic platforms is proposed. The primary aim behind its development lies in carrying out simulated underwater manipulation experiments in an easier and safer way. This VSFOS is consisted of a six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) parallel platform, an ABB serial manipulator, an inertial sensor, and a real-time industrial computer. The 6-DOF platform is used to simulate the movement of an underwater vehicle, whose attitude is measured by the inertial sensor. The ABB manipulator, controlled by the real-time industrial computer, works as an operational tool to perform underwater manipulation tasks. In the control system architecture, software is developed to receive the data collected by the inertial sensor, to communicate and send instructions. Furthermore, the real-time status of the manipulator is displayed in this software. To validate the proposed system, two experiments have been conducted to test its performance. In the first experiment, the test is carried out to check the communication function of VSFOS, while in the second one, the manipulator is intended to follow the movement of the parallel platform and perform simulated operational task in the space. The obtained results from these two experiments show clearly the effectiveness and the performance of the proposed VSFOS.

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“…Furthermore, the last marine robots are supported by the state-of-the-art communication systems. Marine robots with networking support is especially preferred in environmental sensing and ocean observation applications (Zhang et al [2015]). Especially, the use of underwater robotic sensor networks for ocean sampling and surveillance is a perceivable trend (Zhang et al [2015]).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Marine robots with networking support is especially preferred in environmental sensing and ocean observation applications (Zhang et al [2015]). Especially, the use of underwater robotic sensor networks for ocean sampling and surveillance is a perceivable trend (Zhang et al [2015]). Observations from the vehicles can be combined to detect and measure ocean features more effectively than using single vehicle , Curtin et al [1993]).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%