The primary focus of this research was to develop localisation systems for underwater vehicles operating in confined and potentially cluttered environments. The target application is the monitoring of wet nuclear reactors and storage ponds, both legacy and modern, although the t…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have become an interesting and active research topic for photogrammetry. Current research is based on images acquired by an UAV, which have a high ground resolution and good spectral and radiometrical resolution, due to the low flight altitudes com…
Mobile manipulation is a hot area of study in robotics as it unites the two classes of robots: locomotors and manipulators. An emerging niche in the field of mobile manipulation is aerial mobile manipulation. Although there has been a fair amount of study of free-flying satellit…
Wildfires are a growing problem in the US and worldwide — in the last decade we witnessed some of the most destructive, costliest, and deadliest incidents in recorded history. Possible solutions include early fire detection and preventative scans of wildlands — tasks that can be…