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The proposed paper presents the design and development of the combined guidance and control strategies for the autonomous navigation of unmanned vessels characterised by azimuth-based thrust architecture. Autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs) are consolidated technological tools commonly employed for different tasks such as exploration, sampling...

This paper is related to the technological development of an innovative small-size Autonomous Surface Vehicle designed to meet the requirement of accessing, monitoring and protecting the shallow waters peculiar of the Wetlands. The first prototype of a fully electric, modular, portable, lightweight, and highly-controllable Autonomous Surface...

Autonomous underwater operations require robust and accurate navigation capabilities, a basic requirement for both precise position and velocity estimation, as well as motion compensation and geo-referencing of exteroceptive sensor data. A great number of theoretical approaches to sensor fusion and filtering can be found in literature, but they...

This work describes the new Unmanned Marine Vehicle e-URoPe developed by CNR-ISSIA. This Remotely Operated Vehicle is realized using the most innovative technical capabilities in order to achieve a fexible structure, adequate to withstand external impacts. The peculiar characteristics of the vehicle, on which is based the design concept, are:...

Maritime sector is facing a fast increasing in combining innovative aspects with marine operations especially for what regards cooperative operations and environmental monitoring and protection. In this scenario CNR-INM developed a large size innovative Unmanned Marine Vehicle (UMV) named U-SWATH (Unmanned Small-waterplane-area twin hull). The...

The need for the transfer of robotic technology from the research laboratories to civilian applications is now a major issue for the robotic community. In the field of marine robotics is particularly important to endow the robot with a safe and highly reliable Navigation Guidance and Control (NGC) system which enables the Unmanned Surface...

This work describes the exploitation of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), equipped with a multi-parametric sensors package (acoustic and video), for the exploration and characterisation of sea-bottoms covered with Posidonia oceanica seagrass, which represents a valuable indicator of the environmental health. The data collection is achieved by...

This paper reports the development of a new methodology for automatic detection and mapping of underwater vegetation by means of highly autonomous marine robotic platforms. In particular, the work describes the exploitation of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), equipped with a multi-parametric sensors package, for the exploration and...

This paper describes U-SWATH an innovative Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), based on a Small Waterplane Area Twin Hulls (SWATH) design, developed by CNR INSEAN and ISSIA for institutional research purposes. The vehicles is composed of a wide flat deck covered with solar panels which connects two torpedo hulls. The hulls are composed of modular...

A hydrodynamic design procedure is presented, combining multi-objective sampling, metamodeling, and optimization. A design study of a flapped surface for a passenger hydrofoil is discussed. Hydrodynamics, stability and control are optimized with focus on maximum lift, minimum drag, and maneuverability/stability performance during take-off and...

This paper focus on the observation of critical marine environments, pointing out the difficulties that these kinds of dynamic, sensitive and fragile environments create for monitoring operations. The technological solutions adopted, through the use of robotic vehicles, and the operating procedures implemented are also described. The data...

The availability of accurate, reliable and up-to-date information concerning the state of marine resources is essential to create a decision support system for sustainable fishing to protect ecosystems. Within the Interreg Italy-Croatia SUSHI DROP Project (SUstainable fiSHeries wIth DROnes data Processing) a prototype of an Unmanned Underwater...