• openAccess   A natural interface for remote operation of underwater robots 

      García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Patrao, Bruno; Almeida, Luis; Pérez Soler, Javier; Menezes, Paulo; Dias, Jorge; Sanz, Pedro J Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2017-01)
      Nowadays, an increasing need of intervention robotic systems can be observed in all kind of hazardous environments. In all these intervention systems, the human expert continues playing a central role from the decision-making ...
    • openAccess   Design and evaluation of a natural interface for remote operation of underwater roter 

      García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Patrao, Bruno; Almeida, Luis; Pérez Soler, Javier; Menezes, Paulo; Dias, Jorge; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2015-11)
      Nowadays, an increasing need of intervention robotic systems can be observed in all kind of hazardous environments. In all these intervention systems, the human expert continues playing a central role from the decision ...
    • openAccess   Exploring 3-D Reconstruction Techniques: A Benchmarking Tool for Underwater Robotics 

      Pérez Soler, Javier; Sales Gil, Jorge; Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Fornas Garcia, David; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Sanz, Pedro J; Marin, Raul; Prats, Mario Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2015-09)
      When the results of research in the field of robotics are presented to the scientific community, the same question is asked repeatedly: Are the results really reproducible? Regarding benchmarking issues, some technological ...
    • closedAccess   Exploring multimodal interfaces for Underwater Intervention Systems 

      García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Prats Sánchez, Mario; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2010)
      Graphical User Interfaces play a very important role in the context of Underwater Intervention Systems. Classical solutions, specially concerning Remotely Operated Vehicles, frequently require users with an advanced ...
    • closedAccess   New approach for a Reconfigurable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention 

      De Novi, G.; Melchiorri, Claudio; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Sanz, Pedro J; Ridao, Pere; Oliver, Gabriel IEEE (2010-11)
      This shows an on-going project named RAUVI (i.e., Reconfigurable AUV for Intervention). This project aims to design and develop an Underwater Autonomous Robot, able to perceive the environment by means of acoustic and optic ...
    • 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 ...
    • openAccess   Toward the Robot Butler: the HUMABOT Challenge 

      Cervera, Enric; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Sanz, Pedro J Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2015-06)
      Presents information on the HUMABOT Challenge, the official robot competition for the 2014 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2014) that was held during the ...
    • openAccess   Visually-Guided Manipulation Techniques for Robotic Autonomous Underwater Panel Interventions 

      Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Pérez Soler, Javier; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Sales Gil, Jorge; Sanz, Pedro J; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Fornas Garcia, David; Marin, Raul Elsevier (2015)
      The long term of this ongoing research has to do with increasing the autonomy levels for underwater intervention missions. Bearing in mind that the speci c mission to face has been the intervention on a panel, in this paper ...