By Eduard Vidal Garcia Supervised by Dr. Marc Carreras / Dr. Narcís Palomeras Abstract Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are currently used in many different applications, such as near-bottom mapping, manipulation or inspection. Most of the time, these tasks are planned in advance using prior information about the environment where the…
The 11th edition of Breaking the Surface (BtS2019) took place from 29th September to 6th October in Biograd na Moru, Croatia. It is an international interdisciplinary field workshop on maritime robotics and applications. This year over 200 people took part in it. As a member of University of Girona,…
The 12th edition of IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS) took place in Daejeon (Korea) from the 18th to the 20th of September 2019. The conference focuses on technical works reflecting the most recent and highest impact research and application results in the field of automatic control applied to marine systems. Vicorob…
We will be out of the office for a few days!! We will be closed from the 5st to the 31st of August for vacations. Don’t miss this opportunity to relax and enjoy your free time. Have a nice holiday!!! Ens n’anem durant uns dies!!! No hi serem del…
The Oceans’19 MTS/IEE conference took place from the 17th to 20th of June 2019 in Marseille, France. The aim of this conference includes the divulgation of maritime scientific and technologic papers, as well as the consequent networking between professionals and researchers in a wide range of fields related to…
In a collaboration with Université de Lyon, University of Athens, IPGP Institut de Physique du globe de Paris and University of Bergen the CIRS team moved to Greece to map the seafloor. A small team from the Underwater Robotics Research Center (CIRS) with Sparus II AUV equipped with an…
By Dina Nagui Youakim Isaac Supervised by Dr. Pere Ridao Abstract A key challenge in autonomous mobile manipulation is the ability to determine in real-time how to safely execute complex tasks when placed in an unknown world. Motion Planning has been widely used in terrestrial and aerial robots to…
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) was held from 20-24 May 2019 at The Palais des congrès de Montréal in Canada, and it is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference. This year it received over 2900 submissions from 62 countries, from which a total of…
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference. Held annually, the conference joins experts in the robotic community for technical communications through presentations and discussions. This year, the ICRA was held from 20-24 May 2019 at The Palais des…
EMRA (European Marine Robotics and Applications workshop) aims to bring together a diverse range of speakers from ongoing EU funded research projects, industry stakeholders, policy makers and end users. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for networking, dissemination of research projects and cross-fertilization of ideas in marine robotics, enabling innovative…