SPECIAL SESSION #20
Marine Robotics for Sea Metrology
ORGANIZED BY
Giovanni Indiveri
Giovanni Indiveri
University of Genova - ISME, Italy
Enrico Simetti
Enrico Simetti
University of Genova - ISME, Italy
Francesco Wanderlingh
Francesco Wanderlingh
University of Genova - ISME, Italy
Paola Francesca Rivaro
Paola Francesca Rivaro
University of Genova, Italy
ABSTRACT
Marine robotics holds a relevant potential in advancing the field of metrology for the sea, offering essential tools for ocean exploration, preservation, and the advancement of sustainable technologies. By bringing together experts in marine robotics, this session aims to foster collaboration and the exchange of knowledge on developments in underwater autonomous systems, with particular focus on their metrological applications.
The degree of autonomy of marine robots, especially in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), is deeply intertwined with the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. These technologies are important for enabling AUVs to navigate underwater, make real-time, data-driven decisions, and adapt to the changing and often unpredictable conditions of the ocean. A dedicated session on these issues will address key challenges in marine robotics and their applications relevant to oceanic metrology.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Giovanni Indiveri is Associate Professor, since 2011, in Systems and Control Engineering. He holds a Laurea degree in Physics since 1995 and a Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.) in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science since 1998 (both from the University of Genova, Italy). From 1999 to 2001 he was a post-doc Researcher at the Fraunhofer (formerly GMD) Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems FhG - AiS of Sankt Augustin, Germany. From December 2001 to January 2011 he was Ricercatore (Assistant Professor) at the University of Salento. He is currently member of the IFAC Technical Committees 7.2 Marine Systems and 7.5 Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles of which he was Chair in the triennium 2009 - 2011. Since 2021 he is Director of ISME, the inter-university research center on Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment that groups labs from nine Italian Universities working on Marine Robotics.
His research interests are in the area of autonomous robotics and, in particular, of navigation, guidance and motion control for marine and underactuated robots. Specific research topics include modeling and identification of marine robots, pose regulation, trajectory tracking and path following for underactuated kinematic robot models, marine robot navigation, outlier robust parameter identification and state estimation. He has published over 140 papers in international journals and conferences proceedings on these subjects.
Enrico Simetti is an Associate Professor at University of Genova, teaching Embedded Systems and Cooperative Robotics. Since 2020, he is the vice-coordinator for the M.Sc. in Robotics Engineering at the University of Genova, and vice-coordinator of the euRobotics aisbl topic group in Marine Robotics.
His current research interests are in the field of robotics, in particular: marine robotics, embedded systems and mechatronics for robotic applications, force and motion control of robot manipulators and cooperation within multi-agent systems. In details, his research is focused the development and experimental evaluation of control solutions for manipulation tasks with redundant systems. The case of multi-agents cooperating for achieving the manipulation task is also within his research interests. Moreover, he has worked on developing flexible human-robot collaboration frameworks capable to adapt to the human actions.
He is author of 27 papers in international journals, 49 in international conferences and 2 book chapters. He has participated in several national (2 PRINs and 1 PNRM projects) and international funded projects (3 FP7 and 4 H2020 projects, plus a project funded by Qatar National Research Foundation). He has been the principal investigator for the whole ISME interuniversity center involvement within the H2020 ROBUST (2015-2020) project on autonomous in-situ deep-mining exploration with AUVs and he has been the principal investigator of UNIGE within the H2020 EUMR Marine Robots Network project.
Francesco Wanderlingh is currently a Researcher in Robotics Engineering and Marine Systems at the University of Genova. He received the PhD in Robotics and Autonomous Systems in 2018 on the topic "Smart Manufacturing 2020".
He is a member of the ISME Research Center and his main research interests are the design of multi-agent robotics systems for exploration, maintenance, and intervention with main focus on the algorithm design phase and hardware/software development aspect.
He participated in numerous national and international projects conducting extended sea trials, involving the control of marine robotics systems such as surface vehicles, underwater vehicle-manipulators and underwater multi-robot systems.
Paola Francesca Rivaro, rubrica.unige.it
