It is a great pleasure to announce that two of our latest works have been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). The conference will take place in Yokohama, Japan from the 13th to the 17th of May 2024.
The first paper is titled “Marine Sediment Sampling with an Underwater Legged Robot”. It proposes a system for sediment sampling based on our ULR SILVER2 and a custom grab sampler. The design of the system was guided by a set of requirements collected in collaboration with marine biologists, experts in micro-plastic pollution, and it was validated under controlled conditions in a tank, as well as in real conditions in two different field trials.
The second paper is titled “Seabed intervention with an underwater legged robot”. In this work we present the field demonstration of teleoperated pick-and-place tasks using the ULR SILVER2 for which a novel stance control, Graphic User Interface (GUI), and tendon-driven gripper have been developed based on the lessons learned through several hours of field use.
The field works for these papers took place a couple of years ago. However, these results are among the main motivations for developing underwater legged robots and represent the foundations of the BluE project.
Special thanks to all the authors: Anna Astolfi, Mrudul Chellapurath, Martina Capriotti, Kayla Mladinich, Cecilia Laschi, Sergio Stefanni, and Marcello Calisti.
See you in Yokohama.
