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Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining

Rooney, Thomas; Pipe, Anthony G.; Dogramadzi, Sanja; Pearson, Martin

Authors

Thomas Rooney



Abstract

Artificial tactile whisker sensors demonstrate an approach to localisation that is robust to harsh environmental disturbances, endowing autonomous systems with the ability to operate effectively in confined, noisy and visually occluded spaces, such as collapsed buildings or mine shafts, where conventional sensors become unreliable. Marine engineering applications could benefit from such tactile sensors due to the lack of robust underwater close proximity sensing techniques. Animals such as walruses, seals and manatees all have exquisitely sensitive whiskers, which they use for hunting and foraging. Building upon a recent pilot study in underwater tactile sensing [3], we present the motivation for further research and our work plans toward a demonstrator platform for near shore survey and demining.

Citation

Rooney, T., Pipe, A. G., Dogramadzi, S., & Pearson, M. (2012). Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7429, 463-464. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32527-4_60

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2012
Journal Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Print ISSN 0302-9743
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 7429
Pages 463-464
Book Title Advances in Autonomous Robotics
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32527-4_60
Keywords biomimetic, whisker, autonmous underwater vehicles, AUV
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/955421
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32527-4_60