• 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   I-AUV Docking and Panel Intervention at Sea 

      Palomeras, Narcís; Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Massot-Campos, Miquel; Lluís Negre, Pep; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Ridao, Pere; Sanz, Pedro J; Oliver-Codina, Gabriel MDPI (2016)
      The use of commercially available autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has increased during the last fifteen years. While they are mainly used for routine survey missions, there is a set of applications that nowadays can ...
    • openAccess   I-AUV Mechatronics Integration for the TRIDENT FP7 Project 

      Rivas, David; Ridao, Pere; Turetta, Alessio; Melchiorri, Claudio; Palli, Gianluca; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Sanz, Pedro J Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2015-10)
      Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are routinely used to survey areas of interest in seas and oceans all over the world. However, those operations requiring intervention capabilities are still reserved to manned ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...