Systems, Robotics & Vision Group

Last week from 1st to 5th of December our team went to Girona to pick up our new acquisition SPARUS II. During the week, our team learnt how to operate and maintain it, as well as how to mount new sensors onboard. Right now, SRV has mounted an stereo rig, two spotlights and a laser light projector.

The robot, designed and manufactured by CIRS, a research group in underwater vehicles from the University of Girona, was developed as a torpedo-shaped AUV with a vertical propeller to provide better control on constant depth operations.

SRV Group presents its new interactive page of 3D reconstructions (you can directly access it by clicking on the rabbit footer icon). In this page we will publish 3D reconstructions performed with our Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) using the algorithms presented in this paper.

This is an example of a 3D reconstruction of the seabed of Santa Ponça, Mallorca (Spain). The total area scanned is 25x10m.

Miquel Massot has been awarded the best MSc Thesis in mechatronics by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. The award was delivered by Jordi Ortuño from Tecnotrans Bonfiglioni. Miquel’s thesis describes the design, implementation and control of a DC/DC converter using supercapacitors for hybrid or electric vehicles.

The award ceremony was part of the opening year ceremony, which was held on the 9th of October in the “Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyers Industrials de Barcelona” (ETSEIB).

The publication derived from his work, co-authored by Daniel Montesinos, Joan Bergas, Samuel Galcerán and Alfred Rufer got also the 2nd best paper award in the 201​4 journal ​IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. The article is available here.

The SRV members Joan Pep Company and Alberto Ortiz have been awarded the Best Paper of the Robotics section at CEA – Jornadas de Automática, Valencia 3-5 September 2014 (Automation Workshop of the Automation Spanish Council) for the paper:

Company, J. P.; Ortiz, A. «Diseño de una plataforma híbrida aéreo-terrestre para aplicaciones de inspección visual». Proceedings of the XXXV Jornadas de Automática, 2014.

This work describes the design and the dynamics model of an aero-terrestrial hybrid vehicle to be used for visual inspection tasks, such as e.g. inspection of large tonnage vessels (projects EU-FP7 MINOAS and EU-FP7 INCASS ).

For more information, see http://www.uib.cat/noticies/Arxiu/Premi-per-a-un-robot-dinspeccio-de-grans-vaixells.cid360351 (in Catalan)

Our group has had a significant presence in 19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA).

The members of our group have contributed (as authors or co-authors) a total of 12 publications:

– Burguera, A., Bonin-Font, F., Oliver, G., Reducing the computational cost of underwater visual SLAM using dynamic adjustment of overlap detection.

– Burguera, A., Oliver, G., Intensity Correction of Side-Scan Sonar Images.

 
– Bonin-Font, F., Negre, P.L., Burguera, A., Oliver, G., LSH for Loop Closing Detection in Underwater Visual SLAM
 

– Ballesteros, A., Proenza, J., Gessner, D., Rodríguez-Navas, G., Sauter, T.. Achieving Elementary Cycle Synchronization between Masters in the Flexible Time-Triggered Replicated Star for Ethernet.

– Gessner, D., Portugal, P., Proenza, J., Barranco, M. A.. Towards a reliability analysis of the design space for the communication subsystem of FT4FTT.

– Gessner, D., Alvarez, I., Ballesteros, A., Barranco, M. A., Proenza, J.. Towards an Experimental Assessment of the Slave Elementary Cycle Synchronization in the Flexible Time-Triggered Replicated Star for Ethernet.

– Barranco, M. A., Pozo, F., Proenza, J.. A Model for Quantifying the Reliability of Highly-Reliable Distributed Systems based on Fieldbus Replicated Buses.

– Knezic, M., Ballesteros, A., Proenza, J.. Towards Extending the OMNeT++ INET Framework for Simulating Fault Injection in Ethernet-Based Flexible Time-Triggered Systems.

– Derasevic, S., Barranco, M. A., Proenza, J.. Appropriate consistent replicated voting for increased reliability in a node replication scheme over FTT.

– Derasevic, S., Proenza, J., Barranco, M. A.. Using FTT-Ethernet for the coordinated dispatching of tasks and messages for node replication.

– Massot, M., Oliver, G.. One-shot underwater 3D reconstruction.

– García, E., Ortiz, A.. On the Use of Binary Feature Descriptors for Loop Closure Detection.

You can check more SRV publications here.

Our group launches new website, much more attractive and functional and includes new tools for the collaborators.

The main scheme has been remained: home, people, projects and contact. But a new page with the latest news has been included to keep all those colleagues who follow us from other countries informed!

Another important point is the new search option! Visitors can use this new tool to search for people, projects and even publications.

 

The group collaborators will also discover a new private interface to upload their publications, add new projects or post some news.

 

FT4FTT achievements – Audio file

DFT4FTT proposal – Audio file

Pending matters – Audio file

FT4FTT prototyping – Audio file

Dynamic replication of nodes – Audio file

FT for AW and Dynamic FT for FTTRS – Audio file

FT on top of TSN – Audio file

 

The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. The technical track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi–Agent Systems (IRMAS) will be organized for the eighth time in SAC 2022, exploiting the inherent synergy between Robotics and Multi–Agent Systems (MAS), thus aiming to bring together these highly related and exciting research fields. Robotics is a multidisciplinary research area that presents an enormous potential. It concerns developing intelligent robotic systems that are capable of making decisions and acting autonomously in real and unpredictable environments to accomplish tasks and assist humans in relevant application domains for society. Several complex problems require the use of teams of
cooperative robots that share the same challenges studied in MAS.

https://sac2022-irmas.isr.uc.pt/

Important Dates
October 15, 2021 : Paper submission
December 10, 2021 : Acceptance notification
December 21, 2021 : Camera–ready submission

This charity initiative of the University of Balearic Islands (UIB) is coordinated by Dr. Yolanda González of the SRV group and Dr. Bartomeu Alorda, lecturers at the University of the Balearic Islands.

The UIB and and some local media echo the initiative:

https://diari.uib.cat/arxiu/La-comunitat-universitaria-es-coordina-per-posar.cid627249

https://www.arabalears.cat/societat/UIB-impressores-servei-hospitals-Balears-coronavirus-covid-19_0_2431556904.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1586341449