ZEREIK E.

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...

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...

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 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...