VSAP Lab

Marine Robotics for Ocean Interventions

Underwater Mobile Manipulation for Maintenance and Repair

Compliant underwater arms and multimodal perception for semi-autonomous rope manipulation and knotting.

Constructing, maintaining, and repairing offshore facilities is challenging, requiring specialized vessels and human divers. This project investigates underwater mobile manipulators for maintenance and repair tasks, focusing on compliance and torque control, novel compliant underwater arms, and multimodal underwater perception systems.

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Marine Robotics for Ocean Interventions

Related Publications

F. Renda, A. Mathew and D. F. Talegon, "Dynamics and Control of Soft Robots With Implicit Strain Parametrization," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2782-2789, March 2024.

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P. Pustina, C. D. Santina, F. Boyer, A. De Luca and F. Renda, "Input Decoupling of Lagrangian Systems via Coordinate Transformation," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024.

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Z. Chen et al., "Data-Driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024.

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Waseem Akram, Taimur Hassan, Hamed Toubar, Muhayyuddin Ahmed, Nikola Miskovic, Lakmal Seneviratne, and Irfan Hussain, "Aquaculture defects recognition via multi-scale semantic segmentation," Expert Systems with Applications 237, 2024.

Bakht, A.B. et al., "MuLA-GAN: Multi-level attention GAN for enhanced underwater visibility," Ecological Informatics, 2024.

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