Browsing by Author "Ferreira, Fausto"
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Boosting the talent of new generations of marine engineers through robotics competitions in realistic environments: the SAUC-E and euRathlon experience
Ferri, Gabriele; Ferreira, Fausto; Djapic, Vladimir (CMRE, 2019/06)This article summarizes the experience of the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) in the organization of the Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ... -
Current regulatory issues in the usage of autonomous underwater vehicles
Ferreira, Fausto; Alves, João; Leporati, Carolina; Bertolini, Andrea; Bargelli, Elena (CMRE, 2019/05)Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) are becoming increasingly popular for a large number of applications from oceanography to border protection and shipping. In particular, the advent of long-term ASVs allows for months-long ... -
The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge: the first outdoor multi-domain search and rescue robotics competition - a marine perspective
Ferri, Gabriele; Ferreira, Fausto; Djapic, Vladimir; Petillot, Yvan; Palau Franco, Marta (CMRE, 2019/06)The euRathlon project was an FP7-funded Coordination and Support Action (2013-2015). Its main aim was to organize outdoor robotics competitions in realistic search and rescue response scenarios for cooperative land, sea, ... -
Forward looking sonar mosaicing for mine countermeasures
Ferreira, Fausto; Djapic, Vladimir; Micheli, Michele; Caccia, Massimo (CMRE, 2019/06)Forward looking sonars (FLS) are nowadays popular for many different applications. In particular, they can be used for Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) in the context of Mine Countermeasures. Currently, ATR techniques ... -
Fostering marine robotics through competitions: from SAUC-E to ERL Emergency 2018
Ferri, Gabriele; Ferreira, Fausto; Djapic, Vladimir (CMRE, 2019/05)Marine robotics competitions and challenges are today very popular in the robotics community. Their value mainly lies in the opportunities they provide to teams (both student and professional) for developing and testing ... -
Increasing the operational safety of autonomous underwater vehicles using the JANUS communication standard
Ferreira, Fausto; Petroccia, Roberto; Alves, João (CMRE, 2019/05)Increasing the operational safety of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is necessary to fully explore their potential. Currently, AUV operations are limited by several constrains including the need to guarantee no ... -
Liability issues of unmanned surface vehicles
Ferreira, Fausto; Alves, João; Bertolini, Andrea; Bargelli, Elena (CMRE, 2019/05) -
Multi-domain robotics competitions: the CMRE experience from SAUC-E to the European Robotics League Emergency Robots
Ferri, Gabriele; Ferreira, Fausto; Djapic, Vladimir (CMRE, 2019/06)This paper details the experience of the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) in the organisation of several robotics competitions since 2010. In particular, the Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ... -
Real-time mosaicing of large scale areas with forward looking sonar
Ferreira, Fausto; Djapic, Vladimir; Caccia, Massimo (CMRE, 2019/06)Mosaicing of large scale areas is an important application in the field of underwater computer vision. Although most of the works use optical cameras for that purpose, Forward Looking Sonars, also called acoustic cameras, ... -
Scoring robotic competitions: balancing judging promptness and meaningful performance evaluation
Ferreira, Fausto; Ferri, Gabriele; Petillot, Yvan; Liu, Xingkun; Palau Franco, Marta; Matteucci, Matteo; Perez Grau, Francisco Javier; Winfield, Alan Ft. (CMRE, 2019/05)To have a significant and fair competition an adequate scoring system is necessary. Different scoring systems exist, each one directly related to the nature and goals of the competition, e.g. student/educational, focused ... -
Underwater optical and acoustic imaging: a time for fusion? a brief overview of the state-of-the-art
Ferreira, Fausto; Machado, Diogo; Ferri, Gabriele; Dugelay, Samantha; Potter, John Robert (CMRE, 2019/06)Underwater optical imaging has several drawbacks inherent to the physical medium such as light attenuation and turbidity. Sonars try to obviate those issues although, typically, they have lower resolutions. Combining visual ...