• closedAccess   A benchmarking study on single image dehazing techniques for underwater autonomous vehicles 

      Pérez Soler, Javier; Sanz, Pedro J; Bryson, Mitch; Williams, Sephan B. IEEE (2017-06)
      Enhancing the underwater images is of utmost importance for autonomous underwater vehicles. This kind of robots usually have to deal with highly degraded images from which it is extremely difficult to accurately find, ...
    • closedAccess   A distributed architecture for enabling autonomous underwater intervention missions 

      Palomeras, Narcís; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Prats Sánchez, Mario; Sanz, Pedro J; Ridao, Pere; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier IEEE (2010)
      This work introduces the main aspects related with a new architecture defined for an ongoing research project named RAUVI (i.e. Reconfigurable AUV for Intervention Missions). Two initially independent architectures for ...
    • closedAccess   An Underwater Simulation Server Oriented to Cooperative Robotic Interventions: The Educational Approach 

      Solis, Alejandro; Marin, Raul; Marina, Javier; Moreno, Francisco J.; Ávila, Mario; Cruz, Marcos de la; Delgado, Daniel; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2021)
      Experiments that require the use of Supervised Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Intervention (I-AUV) are not easy to be performed, specially when deployed in the sea or in scenarios where the robot might face lack of ...
    • closedAccess   Autonomous underwater grasping using multi-view laser reconstruction 

      Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2017-06)
      Autonomous manipulation in underwater scenarios is a highly complex task which is still poorly studied, but with a growing interest in the last years. Two of the main phases of this problem are the detection and characterization ...
    • openAccess   Experiencias en el diseño de robots educacionales submarinos 

      Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Marín, Josep; Ponce, Javier; Marin, Raul; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Casañ, Gustavo Adolfo; Sanz, Pedro J Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións (2019)
      El presente trabajo da a conocer las actividades preliminares realizadas en la Universidad Jaume I en el ámbito de la robótica educacional submarina y nuestros proyectos futuros. Se muestra la línea temporal seguida desde ...
    • closedAccess   Increasing autonomy within underwater intervention scenarios: The user interface approach 

      García Sánchez, Pedro José; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Sanz, Pedro J; Marin, Raul IEEE (2010)
      The present work represents working progress for designing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) within an ongoing research project named RAUVI (e.g. Reconfigurable AUV for Intervention Missions). This GUI should help the user ...
    • closedAccess   Increasing underwater manipulation autonomy using segmentation and visual tracking 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Vincze, Markus; Fornas Garcia, David IEEE (2017-06)
      The present research in underwater robotics aims to increase the autonomy of manipulation operations in fields such as archaeology or biology, that cannot afford costly underwater interventions using traditional Remote ...
    • closedAccess   Progressive image compression and transmission with region of interest in underwater robotics 

      Moscoso Rubino, Eduardo; Centelles, Diego; Sales Gil, Jorge; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J; Alvares, Alberto IEEE (2017-06)
      The increasing demand for underwater robotic intervention systems around the world in several application domains requires more versatile and inexpensive systems. By using a wireless communication system, supervised ...
    • 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Towards a reactive grasping system for an industrial robot arm 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Recatalá Ballester, Gabriel; Traver Roig, Vicente Javier; del Pobil, Angel P. IEEE (1999-11)
      As robots are being increasingly called to operate out of well-structured environments, our contribution focuses in the grasp determination in unknown objects, vision being the exclusive mode of perception. Two strategies ...
    • openAccess   TRIDENT: A Framework for Autonomous Underwater Intervention 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Ridao, Pere; Oliver, Gabriel; Melchiorri, Claudio; Casalino, Giuseppe; Silvestre, Carlos; Petillot, Yvan; Turetta, Alessio (2011)
      TRIDENT is a STREP project recently approved by the European Commission whose proposal was submitted to the ICT call 4 of the 7th Framework Program. The project proposes a new methodology for multipurpose underwater ...
    • closedAccess   Wireless HROV control with compressed visual feedback over an acoustic link 

      Centelles, Diego; Moscoso Rubino, Eduardo; Vallicrosa, Guillem; Palomeras, Narcís; Sales Gil, Jorge; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Marin, Raul; Ridao, Pere; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2017-06)
      This paper presents the current state of the devel- opment of a Wireless HROV (Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle HROV), providing feedback of both, camera and telemetry data to the operator, over an ...