• openAccess   Grasping for the Seabed: Developing a New Underwater Robot Arm for Shallow-Water Intervention 

      Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Prats, Mario; Sanz, Pedro J; García, Juan Carlos; Marin, Raul; Robinson, Mike; Ribas, David; Ridao, Pere Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2013)
      A new underwater robot arm was developed through intensive cooperation between different academic institutions and an industrial company. The manipulator, which was initially designed to be teleoperated, was adapted ...
    • openAccess   Intervention AUVs: The Next Challenge 

      Ridao, Pere; Carreras, Marc; Ribas, David; Sanz, Pedro J; Oliver, Gabriel International Federation of Automatic Control (2015)
      While commercially available AUVs are routinely used in survey missions, a new set of applications exist which clearly demand intervention capabilities. The maintenance of: permanent underwater observatories, submerged oil ...
    • openAccess   Recent Progress in the RAUVI Project: A Reconfigurable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Prats Sánchez, Mario; Ridao, Pere; Ribas, David; Oliver, Gabriel; Ortiz, Alberto (2011)
      Starting in January 2009, the RAUVI project is a three years coordinated research action funded by the Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation. This paper shows the research evolution during the first half of RAUVI’s ...
    • openAccess   Reconfigurable AUV for Intervention Missions: A Case Study on Underwater Object Recovery 

      Prats Sánchez, Mario; Ribas, David; Palomeras, Narcís; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Nannen, Volker; Wirth, Stephan; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Beltrán, Joan P.; Campos, Ricard; Ridao, Pere; Sanz, Pedro J; Oliver, Gabriel; Carreras, Marc; Gracias, Nuno; Marin, Raul; Ortiz, Alberto Springer (2012)
      Starting in January 2009, the RAUVI (Reconfigurable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention Missions) project is a 3-year coordinated research action funded by the Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation. In ...