Browsing by Author "Furfaro, Thomas C."
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A communications and relative navigation architecture for underwater vehicle coordination
Furfaro, Thomas C.; Alves, João (CMRE, 2019/06)This paper presents an implementation of a communications stack for underwater communications and relative localisation. The application scenario, under the auspices of the EC MORPH project, is described. The high-level ... -
Development of a software-defined and cognitive communications architecture at CMRE
Petroccia, Roberto; Zappa, Giovanni; Furfaro, Thomas C.; Alves, João; D'Amaro, Luigi (2019/05)This paper presents an overview of the functionalities of the Cognitive Communications Architecture (CCA) that is currently under development at the NATO Science and Technology Organisation (STO) Centre for Maritime Research ... -
A distributed framework for embedded collaborative autonomy
Furfaro, Thomas C. (CMRE, 2019/05)We have designed and implemented a framework for the development and deployment of multi-agent task allocation solutions, with particular awareness of the operational constraints encountered by Unmanned Maritime Systems ... -
Micro-bathymetry data acquisition for 3D reconstruction of objects on the sea floor
Machado, Diogo; Furfaro, Thomas C.; Dugelay, Samantha (CMRE, 2019/06)This paper describes an effort to capture micro-bathymetry data for the end purpose of 3D object reconstruction, using an AUV-borne multibeam echo sounder. Due to the combination of relatively narrow across-track coverage ... -
Moving JANUS forward: a look into the future of underwater communications interoperability
Alves, João; Furfaro, Thomas C.; LePage, Kevin D.; Pelekanakis, Konstantinos; Petroccia, Roberto; Zappa, Giovanni (CMRE, 2017/11)In the past 8 years, the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) has developed, tested and promoted JANUS - a robust and simple modulation and coding scheme to be used as the first standard to support ... -
NEMO: An architecture for software communications research in the maritime domain
Vermeij, Arjan; Furfaro, Thomas C.; Alves, João (CMRE, 2019/06)This paper presents a high-level overview of NEMO, an implementation of a communications research software workspace with special focus on application scenarios involving underwater (e.g. acoustic), and other maritime ... -
Supporting AUV localisation through next generation underwater acoustic networks: results from the field
Munafó, Andrea; Furfaro, Thomas C.; Ferri, Gabriele; Alves, João (CMRE, 2017/11)This work describes how the localisation of autonomous underwater vehicles can be supported through net-worked acoustic communication. The localisation approach in-cludes timing information within acoustic messages to ... -
Underwater communications research and development at CMRE
Alves, João; LePage, Kevin D.; Guerrini, Piero; Potter, John Robert; Zappa, Giovanni; Munafò, Andrea; Furfaro, Thomas C.; Vermeij, Arjan (CMRE, 2019/06)A key to developing autonomous maritime systems for NATO is communication among data gathering platforms below and above the water. However, unlike the mature technologies that are used for terrestrial networks, underwater ...