Marine Robots for Underwater Surveillance
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UNDERWATER ROBOTICS (G ANTONELLI, SECTION EDITOR)
Marine Robots for Underwater Surveillance D.S. Terracciano 1,2
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L. Bazzarello 1,2 & A. Caiti 1,3,4 & R. Costanzi 1,3,4 & V. Manzari 2
# The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Purpose of Review The paper reviews the role of marine robots, in particular unmanned vehicles, in underwater surveillance, i.e. the control and monitoring of an area of competence aimed at identifying potential threats in support of homeland defence, antiterrorism, force protection and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). Recent Findings The paper explores separately robotic missions for identification and classification of threats lying on the seabed (e.g. EOD) and anti-intrusion robotic systems. The current main scientific challenge is identified in terms of enhancing autonomy and team/swarm mission capabilities by improving interoperability among robotic vehicles and providing communication networking capabilities, a non-trivial task, giving the severe limitations in bandwidth and latency of acoustic underwater messaging. Summary The work is intended to be a critical guide to the recent prolific bibliography on the topic, providing pointers to the main recent advancements in the field, and to give also a set of references in terms of mission and stakeholders’ requirements (port authorities, coastal guards, navies). Keywords Underwater robots . Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) . Underwater surveillance . Homeland security . Patrolling . Multi-robot systems
Introduction
This article belongs to the Topical Collection on Underwater Robotics * D.S. Terracciano [email protected] L. Bazzarello [email protected] A. Caiti [email protected] R. Costanzi [email protected] V. Manzari [email protected] 1
Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Naval Support and Experimentation Centre (CSSN), Italian Navy, La Spezia, Italy
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Interuniversity Center of Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment (ISME), Genova, Italy
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Research Center “E. Piaggio”, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
In the last decade, there has been a significant interest in the security of ports and marine infrastructures due to the growing threats against civilian targets. The vast scale of the European maritime region and the complexity of the challenges associated with ensuring successful maritime surveillance require a global approach to maritime security. As a result, projects involving different countries at European and NATO levels have been set up to fill the technological gap identified in this branch and to provide new methodologies. Underwater surveillance has traditionally been carried out by means of manned solutions. New maritime capabilities which include the way to conduct surveillance and protection of ports and coastal waters are treated within the Harbour & Maritime Surveillance and Protection (HARMPRO) project [1], implemented within the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) framework. In the same project framework, the Mar
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