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Towards fully autonomous underwater vehicles in ASW scenarios: an adaptive data driven AUV mission management layer
(CMRE, 2019/06)
We present an adaptive, data driven Mission Management Layer (MML) to manage the phases (surveillance, track prosecution and target reacquisition) of the mission of AUVs operating as receiver nodes in a multistatic network ...
Fostering marine robotics through competitions: from SAUC-E to ERL Emergency 2018
(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 ...
Supporting AUV localisation through next generation underwater acoustic networks: results from the field
(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 ...
AUV active perception: exploiting the water column
(CMRE, 2019/06)
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) present a low-cost alternative or supplement to existing underwater surveillance networks. The NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation is developing collaborative ...
Distributed information fusion in multistatic sensor networks for underwater surveillance
(CMRE, 2017/11)
Surveillance in antisubmarine warfare has traditionally been carried out by means of submarines or frigates with towed arrays. These techniques are manpower intensive. Alternative approaches have recently been suggested ...
Underwater optical and acoustic imaging: a time for fusion? a brief overview of the state-of-the-art
(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 ...
Scoring robotic competitions: balancing judging promptness and meaningful performance evaluation
(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 ...
An autonomous underwater vehicle data-driven control strategy for target tracking
(CMRE, 2019/05)
This paper presents a data-driven approach to control the movement of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating as receivers of a multistatic sonar surveillance network. The algorithm adopts a nonmyopic receding ...
Autonomous underwater surveillance networks: a task allocation framework to manage cooperation
(2019/05)
The design of efficient task allocation schemes is essential to manage autonomous underwater robotic surveillance networks. The network has to assign the most suited robots to the tasks which compose the mission, in spite ...