Robotic Swarm for Marine and Submarine Missions: Challenges and Perspectives

Luvisutto, Alberto; Shehhi, Aaesha Al; Mankovskii, Nikita; Renda, Federico; Stefanini, Cesare; Masi, Giulia De

doi:10.1109/auv53081.2022.9965934

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“…In [16] some acoustic modems and collaborative AUV localization methods are presented. General reviews for underwater swarm robotics include [20], [21]. Nevertheless, to the best knowledge of the authors, no work has discussed what constitutes a low-cost acoustic localization system for underwater vehicle swarms and the specific challenges, as well as whether existing localization methods are suitable for swarm localization solutions.…”

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Low-Cost Underwater Swarm Acoustic Localization: A Review

Jiang,

Renner

2024

IEEE Access

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Underwater swarm robotics has gained prominence as an innovative paradigm for diverse applications, including environmental monitoring and marine exploration. This review paper presents a comprehensive review of low-cost underwater swarm acoustic localization systems, focusing on recent research findings validated through field experiments. To aid research on the concept of low-cost swarm acoustic localization, this article provides overview of cost-effective underwater swarm applications and the applicability assessment of traditional acoustic localization strategies, then presents several crucial components for building an acoustic ranging-based low-cost swarm localization system, including lowcost acoustic modems and low-cost swarm localization system with cooperative strategies. In summary, this review serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in underwater swarm robotics and acoustic localization, addressing challenges, strategies, and goals of low-cost swarm acoustic localization systems.

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Low-Cost Underwater Swarm Acoustic Localization: A Review

Jiang,

Renner

2024

IEEE Access

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“…The most promising approach to improve the performance of visual underwater surveys is the implementation of a multi-robot approach, specifically a swarm approach [10,11]. The first obvious advantage lies in the possibility to parallelize the job among multiple agents: this not only allows for lower operating times and costs, but enables wide area studies when the time frame for the data acquisition impacts the measurements (for example: when studying fauna active only at a certain time of the day, or chemical proprieties with a 3d pattern or vertical stratification).…”

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Heterogeneous Underwater Swarm of Robotic Fish

Iacoponi,

Hanbaly,

Infanti

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Underwater robotics is prevalent today in the field of undersea surveys. The current single-agent approach struggles to cover surveys of large areas, especially when visual analyses are required. Applications of underwater multi-robots fleets need to manage the coordination of the agents, which in turn stresses the already limited capabilities of underwater localization and communication. We propose a concept for a multilayered control architecture, which leverages visual recognition and swarm behavior to negotiate the coordination requirements of the single agent while retaining a significant level of control over the fleet of vehicles as a whole. This is obtained by including multiple control layers, paired with a heterogeneous composition of vehicles.

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