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Society for Underwater Technology – Underwater Robotics Group – Robotics

Robotics

Definition ...

... systems that are capable of carrying out prescribed tasks remotely, assessing the situation, and changes in the situation, and capable of making decisions and taking appropriate action to achieve the task, in situ, without human intervention.

For an underwater system, this must include:
  • three dimensional navigation and collision avoidance
  • spatial recognition and model representation
  • coordinate transformation
  • manipulation
  • data transmission