Improving the control and guidance of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) operating in unkown or dynamic environments is a challenging task, which is faced with lots of uncertainties when it comes to modeling the motion behavior of such robots. Such uncertainties arise from modeling complex physical…

The project MOONWALK was conducted from 2012 to 2016 and concluded with two earth-analogue simulations in 2016: a) at a strip mine in Rio Tinto, Spain, representing a Mars analogue environment and b) at sea floor level in the coastal area of Marseille, France, representing a Moon analogue environmen…

For more than 40 years, CDA InterCorp has been the leader in designing and manufacturing of extremely reliable Controllable Drive Actuators, Eddy Current Dampers, and Rotary Transducers for space and related support applications. CDA’s standard modular design concept, with off-the-shelf-technology…

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Subsea resident AUV systems have very strong robustness requirements regarding software and hardware, in order to endure the hazards and difficulties posed by the marine environment. In such condition, Fault Diagnosis and Fault Prognosis are essential to ensure reliable operation of the vehicle and …

Walking robots provide a large degree of mobility and flexibility, but demand a sophisticated motion control to guarantee fast and stable locomotion in unstructured terrain. A small introduction to the chosen behavior-based control approach, which fulfills these requirements, and its BAGEL implement…

Recent studies of the space debris population in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) have concluded that certain regions have reached a critical density of objects, which will eventually lead to a cascading process called the Kessler syndrome, even with the full implementation of the current mitigation measures. …

Wally is an underwater deep sea crawler equipped with sensors measuring temperature, pressure, water currents, salinity, methane, turbidity, and the 3D shape of the sea floor. Recently, it was deployed at a cold seep in the Barkley Canyon gas hydrate field at a depth of 870m and connected to the Oce…

Since the beginning of realizing complex machines, the need for analytical descriptions of the kinematic structure is present as it is necessary to calculate the forces and torques within the mechanism and the position of the structure or the corresponding  actuator positions. Furthermore, the …

With the increasing demand for autonomy in robotic systems, there is a rising need for sensory data sensed via different modalities. In this way system states and the aspects of unstructured environments can be assessed in the most detailed fashion possible, thus providing a basis for making de…