Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are robotic devices with a propulsion
system for navigation and an onboard computer for decision making. AUV research is …

Spawned by fast paced progress in marine science and technology, the past two decades
have witnessed growing interest in ocean exploration and exploitation for scientific and …

The worldwide demands for high protein seafood are growing rapidly. Through robots
instead of divers completing the capture will not only reduce the cost, but also improve the …

While commercially available AUVs are routinely used in survey missions, a new set of
applications exist which clearly demand intervention capabilities. The maintenance of …

Deploying robots to explore venues that are inaccessible to humans, or simply inhospitable,
has been a longstanding ambition of scientists, engineers, and explorers across numerous …

This paper proposes a controller for the GIRONA500 Underwater Vehicle Manipulator
System and reports experimental results for an autonomous floating-base valve-turning …

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are routinely used to survey areas of interest in
seas and oceans all over the world. However, those operations requiring intervention …

Automated industries lead to high quality production, lower manufacturing cost and better
utilization of human resources. Robotic manipulator arms have major role in the automation …

This article addresses the problem of cooperative object transportation for multiple
underwater vehicle manipulator systems (UVMSs) in a constrained workspace involving …

Underwater Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair operations are nowadays performed using
Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) deployed from dynamic-positioning vessels, having …