AI Technology for Underwater Robots (Hardcover, 2020)

Preface.- Part I: Underwater Robots: Challenges and Applications.- A Survey of Challenges and Potentials for AI-Technologies.- Intelligent Sensor Technology: A ‘must-have’ for Next-Century Marine Science.- Challenges for Deepwater Operations: An Industry Perspective.- Part II: System Design, Dynamics and Control.- Intelligent Skin ? Advanced Materials and Manufacturing for a Modular and Multipurpose Hull.- Modular and Reconfigurable System Design for Underwater Vehicles.- Intelligent Propulsion.- Challenges and Opportunities in Communications for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.- Modular Underwater Manipulators for Autonomous Underwater Intervention.- Part III: Intervention and Environment Analysis.- Machine Learning and Dynamic Whole Body Control for Underwater Manipulation.- Adaptive Control for Underwater Gripping Systems.- Challenges in Underwater Visual Navigation and SLAM.- Underwater Multi-Modal Sensing for Environmental Mapping and Vehicle Navigation.- Towards a Simulation Framework for Underwater Intervention Analysis and Training.- Part IV: Autonomy and Mission Planning.- Novel Directions for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation in Confined Spaces.- Verification for Autonomous Underwater Systems.- Interactive Strategic Mission Management System for Intuitive Human-Robot Cooperation.