Recently, the world witnessed a significant increase in the number of used drones, with a
global and continuous rise in the demand for their multi-purpose applications. The pervasive …

Disaster robotics has become a research area in its own right, with several reported cases of
successful robot deployment in actual disaster scenarios. Most of these disaster …

Discusses how the VisDB system supports the query specification process by representing
the result visually. The main idea behind the system stems from the view of relational …

Underactuated robotic systems have become an important research topic aiming at
significant improvement of the behavioural performance and energy efficiency. Adopting …

Autonomous ships represent an emerging paradigm within the maritime sector, poised to
bring multiple advantages. Although numerous prototypes have been developed, the …

Multi-sensor fusion for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is an important issue for
autonomous navigation of USVs. In this paper, an improved particle swarm optimization …

This paper presents results of the INESC TEC participation in the maritime environment
(both at surface and underwater) integrated in the ICARUS team in the euRathlon 2015 …

In recent years, a rising numbers of people arrived in the European Union, traveling across
the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast Europe in what has been later named …

Marine robots, particularly Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs), have gained considerable
attention for their diverse applications in maritime tasks, including search and rescue …

The development of maritime unmanned tools for search and rescue operations is not a
trivial task. A great part of maritime unmanned systems developed did not target such …