@conference {280, title = {Benchmarking water turbidity effect on tracking algorithms}, booktitle = {20th IFAC World Congress}, year = {2017}, month = {07/2017}, publisher = {IFAC-PapersOnLine}, organization = {IFAC-PapersOnLine}, address = {Toulouse (France)}, abstract = {

Field experiments in underwater robotics research require a big amount of resources in order to be able to test the system in sea conditions. Moreover, sea conditions are constantly changing making impossible to reproduce specific situations. For these reasons, testing, comparing and evaluating different algorithms in similar conditions is an utopic situation. In order to deal with this, a framework that mixes real experiments and a simulated environment is proposed to allow objective comparison of algorithms in an scenario as close as possible to field experiments. This is possible using real sensors in a controllable environment, for instance a water tank, adding simulated hostile conditions difficult to reproduce in a controlled environment such as water turbidity, composing a Hardware In the Loop (HIL) framework. This framework is formed by UWSim, an underwater simulator, and a benchmarking module able to measure the performance of external software. This setup is used in a search and recovery use case to compare different tracking algorithms, predicting the effect of water turbidity in them. The results allow to choose the best option without the need of dealing with field experiments.

}, keywords = {Underwater simulator Benchmarking Underwater intervention Robotics Dehazing}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1243}, author = {P{\'e}rez, Javier and Sales, Jorge and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Fornas, David and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @article {271, title = {I-AUV Docking and Panel Intervention at Sea}, journal = {Sensors}, volume = {16}, year = {2016}, month = {12 October 2016}, type = {Open Access}, abstract = {

The use of commercially available autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has increased during the last fifteen years. While they are mainly used for routine survey missions, there is a set of applications that nowadays can be only addressed by manned submersibles or work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) equipped with teleoperated arms: the intervention applications. To allow these heavy vehicles controlled by human operators to perform intervention tasks, underwater structures like observatory facilities, subsea panels or oil-well Christmas trees have been adapted, making them more robust and easier to operate. The TRITON Spanish founded project proposes the use of a light-weight intervention AUV (I-AUV) to carry out intervention applications simplifying the adaptation of these underwater structures and drastically reducing the operational cost. To prove this concept, the Girona 500 I-AUV is used to autonomously dock into an adapted subsea panel and once docked perform an intervention composed of turning a valve and plugging in/unplugging a connector. The techniques used for the autonomous docking and manipulation as well as the design of an adapted subsea panel with a funnel-based docking system are presented in this article together with the results achieved in a water tank and at sea.

}, keywords = {autonomous underwater vehicles, field robotics, manipulation, Underwater Intervention}, doi = {10.3390/s16101673}, url = {http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/10/1673/html}, author = {Palomeras, Narc{\'\i}s and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Massot-Campos, Miquel and Negre, Pep Llu{\'\i}s and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Ridao, Pere and Sanz, Pedro J. and Oliver, Gabriel} } @conference {264, title = {Mejoras en la arquitectura de control e interfaz de usuario para el control de un HROV}, booktitle = {XXXVII Jornadas de Autom{\'a}tica}, year = {2016}, month = {09/2016}, address = {Madrid (Spain)}, isbn = {978-84-617-4298-1}, author = {Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Javier P{\'e}rez and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Menezes, Paulo and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {243, title = {A benchmarking perspective of underwater intervention systems}, booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles}, year = {2015}, month = {04/2015}, address = {Girona (Spain)}, doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.002}, author = {Sanz, Pedro J. and Javier P{\'e}rez and Sales, Jorge and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Fornas, David and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos} } @conference {233, title = {Benchmarking using UWSim, Simurv and ROS: An autonomous free floating dredging intervention case study}, booktitle = {Oceans{\textquoteright}15 MTS/IEEE Genova}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Genova (Italy)}, abstract = {

This paper proposes the use of UWSim (an underwater simulator) in combination with Simurv (a kinematic and dynamic library for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems control algorithms) and ROS (a well-known robotics framework) in order to simulate the dynamics of an Intervention Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and its application to the benchmarking of autonomous control algorithms in the field of archaeology dredging.

}, keywords = {benchmarking, free floating control, I-AUV, simulation, underwater autonomous intervention, UWSim}, isbn = {978-1-4799-8736-8}, doi = {10.1109/OCEANS-Genova.2015.7271514}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS-Genova.2015.7271514}, author = {Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Javier P{\'e}rez and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Sales, Jorge and Fornas, David and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @article {238, title = {Exploring 3-D Reconstruction Techniques: A Benchmarking Tool for Underwater Robotics}, journal = {IEEE ROBOTICS \& AUtOMATION MAGAZINE }, volume = {22}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, chapter = {85-95}, issn = {1070-9932}, doi = {10.1109/MRA.2015.2448971}, author = {Javier P{\'e}rez and Sales, Jorge and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Fornas, David and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Sanz, Pedro J. and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Prats, Mario} } @article {250, title = {Fitting primitive shapes in point clouds: a practical approach to improve autonomous underwater grasp specification of unknown objects}, journal = {Journal of Experimental \& Theoretical Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2015}, month = {04/2015}, chapter = {1-16}, abstract = {

This article presents research on the subject of autonomous underwater robot manipulation. Ongoing research in underwater robotics intends to increase the autonomy of intervention operations that require physical interaction in order to achieve social benefits in fields such as archaeology or biology that cannot afford the expenses of costly underwater operations using remote operated vehicles. Autonomous grasping is still a very challenging skill, especially in underwater environments, with highly unstructured scenarios, limited availability of sensors and adverse conditions that affect the robot perception and control systems. To tackle these issues, we propose the use of vision and segmentation techniques that aim to improve the specification of grasping operations on underwater primitive shaped objects. Several sources of stereo information are used to gather 3D information in order to obtain a model of the object. Using a RANSAC segmentation algorithm, the model parameters are estimated and a set of feasible grasps are computed. This approach is validated in both simulated and real underwater scenarios.

}, doi = { 10.1080/0952813X.2015.1024495}, author = {Fornas, David and Sales, Jorge and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Javier P{\'e}rez and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {240, title = {MERMANIP: Avances recientes en la manipulaci{\'o}n aut{\'o}noma cooperativa submarina}, booktitle = {XXXVI Jornadas de Autom{\'a}tica}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, address = {Bilbao (Spain)}, isbn = {978-84-15914-12-9}, author = {Sanz, Pedro J. and Javier P{\'e}rez and Sales, Jorge and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Fornas, David and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l} } @conference {234, title = {Multipurpose Underwater Manipulation for Archaeological Intervention}, booktitle = {6th International Workshop on Marine Technology (MARTECH{\textquoteright}15)}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, address = {Cartagena (Spain)}, keywords = {archaeology, I-AUV, manipulation, supervised control}, isbn = {1886-4864}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2117/77627}, author = {Sanz, Pedro J. and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Sales, Jorge and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Javier P{\'e}rez and Fornas, David and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l} } @conference {235, title = {Multi-view underwater 3D reconstruction using a stripe laser light and an eye-in-hand camera}, booktitle = {Oceans{\textquoteright}15 MTS/IEEE Genova}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Genova (Italy)}, abstract = {

Autonomous manipulation in unestructured underwater scenarios is a high challenging skill that has been poorly studied and is becoming more and more important in the last years. One of the main problems regarding the autonomous manipulation, is to find out the characteristics of the object which is going to be manipulated. This paper presents a new approach to obtain an accurate 3D reconstruction of this object. This approach consists in attaching a laser stripe emitter and a camera in the forearm of a robotic arm. Moving the arm, the laser scans the scene where the object is and, at the same time, the camera records the scan. Thanks to the arm and the position of the camera, the scene can be reconstructed from different views and from a position close to the object. The recorded images are processed to obtain the 3D position of the part of the scene projected by the laser. Before the intervention, a process of calibration is needed to calculate the relationship between each part of the system. Furthemore, in order to reduce the time of processing of the images recorded during the scan, an optimization algorithm is presented which consists in discarding, before the processing, the pixels of the image which do not contain relevant information. The approach herein presented and the optimization algorithm are tested using an underwater simulator.

}, keywords = {3D reconstruction, autonomous grasping, Laser-Camera Calibration, Optimization Algorithm, Underwater Laser Scanning}, isbn = {978-1-4799-8736-8}, doi = {10.1109/OCEANS-Genova.2015.7271497}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS-Genova.2015.7271497}, author = {Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sales, Jorge and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @article {242, title = {Visually-guided manipulation techniques for robotic autonomous underwater panel interventions}, journal = {Annual Reviews in Control}, volume = {40}, year = {2015}, month = {10/2015}, chapter = {201-211}, keywords = {3D Simulation, Autonomous Manipulation, I-AUV, Panel Intervention, Robot Kinematics, Underwater Intervention, Vision Guidance}, issn = {1367-5788}, doi = {10.1016/j.arcontrol.2015.09.012}, author = {Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Javier P{\'e}rez and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sales, Jorge and Sanz, Pedro J. and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Fornas, David and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l} } @conference {182, title = {Autonomous Intervention on an Underwater Panel mockup by using Visually-Guided Manipulation Techniques}, booktitle = {19th IFAC World Congress}, year = {2014}, month = {08/2014}, address = {Cape Town (South Africa)}, author = {Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Javier P{\'e}rez and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sales, J. and Sanz, Pedro J. and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Fornas, David and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l} } @conference {187, title = {Avances recientes en manipulaci{\'o}n subacu{\'a}tica en el subproyecto GRASPER}, booktitle = {XXXV Jornadas de Autom{\'a}tica}, year = {2014}, month = {09/2014}, address = {Valencia, Spain}, author = {Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Javier P{\'e}rez and Sales, J. and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Fornas, David and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {197, title = {I-AUV Docking and Intervention in a Subsea Panel}, booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)}, year = {2014}, month = {09/2014}, address = {Chicago, USA}, isbn = {978-1-4799-6933-3}, author = {Palomeras, Narc{\'\i}s and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Massot-Campos, Miquel and Villacrosa, Guillem and Negre, Pep Llu{\'\i}s and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Ridao, Pere and Sanz, Pedro J. and Oliver, Gabriel and Palomer, Albert} } @conference {186, title = {Improving autonomous underwater grasp specification using primitive shape fitting in point clouds}, booktitle = {Seventeenth International Conference of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2014)}, year = {2014}, month = {10/2014}, publisher = {IOS Press (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)}, organization = {IOS Press (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)}, address = {Barcelona (Spain)}, abstract = {
This paper presents a research in progress towards autonomous under-
water robot manipulation. Current research in underwater robotics intends to increase the autonomy of intervention operations that require physical interaction.\ Autonomous grasping is still a very challenging skill, especially in underwater environments, with highly unstructured scenarios, limited availability of sensors and\ adverse conditions that affect the robot perception and control systems in various\ degrees. To tackle those issues, we propose the use of vision and segmentation\ techniques that aim to improve the specification of grasping operations on underwater primitive shaped objects. Several sources of stereo information are used to\ gather 3D information in order to obtain a model of the object. Using a RANSAC\ primitive shape recognition algorithm, the model parameters are estimated and a\ set of feasible grasps are computed. This approach is validated in simulation and\ the quality of different 3D reconstructions from both real and virtual scenarios is\ analyzed.
}, keywords = {grasp specification, point cloud, RANSAC, shape fitting, underwater autonomous grasping, UWSim underwater realistic simulator}, isbn = {978-1-61499-451-0 (print) | 978-1-61499-452-7 (online)}, doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-452-7-45}, author = {Fornas, David and Sales, J. and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Javier P{\'e}rez and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @inbook {183, title = {Robotic Manipulation within the Underwater Mission Planning context: A Use Case for Benchmarking}, booktitle = {Motion and Operation Planning of Robotics System: Background and Practical Approaches}, year = {2014}, pages = {483-510}, abstract = {


}, issn = {978-3-319-14705-5}, author = {Javier P{\'e}rez and Sales, J. and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sanz, Pedro J. and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Mart{\'\i}, Jose Vicente and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Fornas, David} } @conference {175, title = {GRASPER: A Multisensory Based Manipulation System for Underwater Operations}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013}, year = {2013}, month = {10/2013}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Manchester, UK}, doi = {10.1109/SMC.2013.689}, author = {Sanz, Pedro J. and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Sales, Jorge and Fornas, David and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Javier P{\'e}rez and Bernab{\'e}, Jos{\'e} Antonio} } @conference {176, title = {GRASPER: Un Proyecto Dirigido a Incrementar la Autonomi?a de la Manipulacio?n Submarina}, booktitle = {XXXIV Jornadas de Automa?tica}, year = {2013}, month = {09/2013}, publisher = {CEA}, organization = {CEA}, address = {Terrassa, Spain}, isbn = {978-84-616-5063-7}, author = {Sanz, Pedro J. and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Javier P{\'e}rez and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Fornas, David and Sales, Jorge and Bernab{\'e}, Jos{\'e} Antonio and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l} } @article {178, title = {Grasping for the Seabed: Developing a New Underwater Robot Arm for Shallow-Water Intervention}, journal = {IEEE Robotics \& Automation Magazine}, volume = {20}, year = {2013}, month = {10/2013}, pages = {121 - 130}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/MRA.2013.2248307}, author = {Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Prats, Mario and Sanz, Pedro J. and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Robinson, Mike and Ribas, David and Ridao, Pere} } @conference {177, title = {HIL Simulation Towards Autonomous Manipulation of an Underwater Panel in a Permanent Observatory}, booktitle = {Oceans{\textquoteright}13 MTS/IEEE San Diego}, year = {2013}, month = {09/2013}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {San Diego, USA}, isbn = {978-0-933957-40-4}, author = {Sanz, Pedro J. and Javier P{\'e}rez and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Fornas, David and Sales, Jorge and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l} } @conference {179, title = {Primitive shape fitting in point clouds for enabling autonomous underwater grasping}, booktitle = {5TH MARTECH International Workshop On Marine Technology}, year = {2013}, month = {10/2013}, address = {Girona (Spain)}, abstract = {

Autonomous grasping of unknown objects by a
robot is a highly challenging skill that is receiving increasing
attention in the last years, and is still more challenging in
underwater environments, with highly unstructured scenarios,
limited availability of sensors and adverse conditions that affect
the robot perception and control systems. This paper describes
an approach for increase the autonomy of grasping operations
on underwater primitive shaped objects from floating vehicles,
in particular cylinder shaped objects like an amphora. Various
sources of stereo information are used to gather 3D information in
order to obtain a model of the object. Using a RANSAC primitive
shape recognition algorithm the model parameters are obtained
and a set of feasible grasps are computed. Then the user specifies
the best one or it is specified using analytical constraints. This
approach is tested with the UWSim simulator.

}, keywords = {autonomous grasping, point cloud, RANSAC, shape fitting, underwater}, isbn = {978-84-616-5764-3}, author = {Fornas, David and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Prats, Mario and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sales, J.} } @conference {180, title = {Semi-autonomous grasping approach of unknown objects in underwater environments combining structured light and a virtual simulation environment}, booktitle = {5TH MARTECH International Workshop On Marine Technology}, year = {2013}, month = {10/2013}, address = {Girnoa (Spain)}, abstract = {

Many scientific and industrial works that take place
underwater are increasingly demanding for technology to allow
their autonomous execution. Autonomous grasping of unknown
objects by a robotic arm is a task that is being highly studied by
researchers in the last years. This is a really difficult task in itself,
but the problem is bigger if the grasp is done in underwater
environments, where the sensors that can be installed in the arm,
decrease their performance drastically. This paper describes an
approach for semi-autonomous grasping of underwater unknown
objects using a robotic arm. To achieve this purpose, a scan of the
scene is performed using a structured laser beam attached to the
forearm of the manipulator. At the same time, a digital video
camera is used to capture the scene. The laser stripes are
triangulated to obtain a 3D point cloud. The entire process is
shown inside an underwater simulator, acting in this case as a
virtual representation of the real environment. This virtual
representation allows the user to specify the grasp, to see how the
grasp will be executed, and to monitor the final process in real
time. To validate the good performance of the proposed
approach, several grasping experiments with two different objects
have been performed in water tank conditions with a real I-AUV
system.

}, keywords = {3D reconstruction, Intervention AUV, semiautonomous grasping, underwater recovery}, isbn = {978-84-616-5764-3}, author = {Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Prats, Mario and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sales, J.} } @conference {132, title = {An approach for Semi-Autonomous Recovery of Unknown Objects in Underwater Environments}, booktitle = {13th International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment}, year = {2012}, month = {05/2012}, address = {Brasov, Romania}, isbn = {978-1-4673-1653-8}, author = {Prats, Mario and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {96, title = {Combining Template Tracking and Laser Peak Detection for 3D Reconstruction and Grasping in Underwater Environments}, booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems}, year = {2012}, month = {10/2012}, address = {Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal}, isbn = {978-4673-1736-8}, author = {Prats, Mario and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {120, title = {Manipulation in the Seabed: A New Underwater Robot Arm for Shallow Water Intervention}, booktitle = {Conference on Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control}, year = {2012}, month = {04/12}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg, Germany}, doi = {10.3182/20120403-3-DE-3010.00029}, author = {Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Prats, Mario and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio} } @conference {97, title = {An Open Source Tool for Simulation and Supervision of Underwater Intervention Missions}, booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems}, year = {2012}, month = {10/2012}, address = {Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal}, isbn = {978-1-4673-1736-8}, author = {Prats, Mario and Javier P{\'e}rez and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {134, title = {Proyecto RAUVI: Historia y Resultados}, booktitle = {XXXIII Jornadas de Autom{\'a}tica}, year = {2012}, month = {09/2012}, address = {Vigo, Spain}, isbn = {978-84-8158-583-4}, author = {Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Prats, Mario and Sanz, Pedro J. and Ribas, David and Ridao, Pere and Wirth, Stephan and Oliver, Gabriel} } @conference {133, title = {Puesta a punto de sensores t{\'a}ctiles y adaptaci{\'o}n a una mano rob{\'o}tica sumergible}, booktitle = {XXXIII Jornadas de Autom{\'a}tica}, year = {2012}, month = {09/2012}, address = {Vigo, Spain}, isbn = {978-84-8158-583-4}, author = {Pe{\~n}alver, Antonio and Prats, Mario and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @article {14, title = {Reconfigurable AUV for intervention missions: a case study on underwater object recovery}, journal = {Intelligent Service Robotics}, volume = {5}, year = {2012}, note = {To be published}, month = {01/2012}, chapter = {19-31}, issn = {1861-2776}, doi = {10.1007/s11370-011-0101-z}, author = {Prats, Mario and Ribas, David and Palomeras, Narc{\'\i}s and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Nannen, Volker and Wirth, Stephan and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Beltr{\'a}n, Joan P. and Campos, Ricard and Ridao, Pere and Sanz, Pedro J. and Oliver, Gabriel and Carreras, Marc and Gracias, Nuno and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Ortiz, Alberto} } @conference {6003619, title = {Advances in the specification and execution of underwater autonomous manipulation tasks}, booktitle = {IEEE OCEANS 2011}, year = {2011}, month = {06/2011}, pages = {1 -5}, abstract = {

In this paper we show how techniques that have been applied during the last years for autonomous manipulation in the air can be successfully adapted to a new challenging scenario: the underwater environment. Specifically, the developed techniques include among others: visual tracking of objects in the seabed, vision-based arm control and sensor-based grasping. Furthermore, a graphical user interface for specifying underwater manipulation actions and providing the corresponding task specification to the execution modules is also presented. This research is enclosed in the framework of our two ongoing projects in autonomous underwater intervention: RAUVI and TRIDENT.

}, keywords = {computer vision, formal specification, graphical user interface, graphical user interfaces, mobile robots, object tracking, object visual tracking, RAUVI, remotely operated vehicles, sensor-based grasping, sensors, TRIDENT, underwater autonomous manipulation tasks, underwater vehicles, vision-based arm control}, isbn = {978-1-4577-0086-6}, doi = {10.1109/Oceans-Spain.2011.6003619}, author = {Prats, Mario and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {68, title = {Avances en la especificaci{\'o}n y ejecuci{\'o}n de tareas aut{\'o}nomas de manipulaci{\'o}n submarina}, booktitle = {XXXII Jornadas de Autom{\'a}tica (CEA)}, year = {2011}, month = {09/2011}, address = {Sevilla (Spain)}, isbn = {978-84-694-6454-0}, author = {Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Prats, Mario and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {prats11, title = {Towards specification, planning and sensor-based control of autonomous underwater intervention}, booktitle = {IFAC 2011}, year = {2011}, note = {

To be published

}, month = {08/2011}, pages = {10361-10366}, address = {Milano, Italy}, isbn = {978-3-902661-93-7}, author = {Prats, Mario and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Sanz, Pedro J.} } @conference {100, title = {A Distributed Architecture for Enabling Autonomous Underwater Intervention Missions}, booktitle = {4th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference 2010}, year = {2010}, month = {04/2010}, address = {San Diego, California, United States}, keywords = {Auntonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention, Behaviour Robotics, Distributed Architectures}, isbn = {978-1-4244-5883-7}, doi = {10.1109/SYSTEMS.2010.5482349}, author = {Palomeras, Narc{\'\i}s and Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Prats, Mario and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sanz, Pedro J. and Ridao, Pere} } @conference {garcia10, title = {Increasing Autonomy within Underwater Intervention Scenarios: The User Interface Approach}, booktitle = {2010 IEEE International Systems Conference}, year = {2010}, month = {4}, pages = {71{\textendash}75}, address = {San Diego, CA, USA}, isbn = {978-1-4244-5883-7}, author = {Garc{\'\i}a, Juan Carlos and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier and Sanz, Pedro J. and Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l} } @article {23, title = {Remote Programming of Network Robots Within the UJI Industrial Robotics Telelaboratory: FPGA Vision and SNRP Network Protocol}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics}, volume = {56}, year = {2009}, month = {12/2009}, pages = {4806 - 4816}, issn = {0278-0046}, doi = {10.1109/TIE.2009.2013250}, author = {Mar{\'\i}n, Ra{\'u}l and Leon, G. and Wirz, Raul and Sales, J. and Claver, J.M. and Sanz, Pedro J. and Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} Javier} }