Reports
[Report] Hash-based Loop-Closure Detection
Vessel Visual Inspection: A Mosaicing Approach
Vessel maintenance entails periodic visual inspections of internal and external parts of the hull in order to detect the typical defective situations affecting metallic structures. Nowadays, robots are becoming more and more important regarding these inspection tasks,...
A Micro-Aerial Vehicle based on Supervised Autonomy for Vessel Visual Inspection
Seagoing vessels have to undergo regular visual inspections in order to detect the typical defective situations affecting metallic structures, such as cracks and corrosion. These inspections are currently performed by ship surveyors manually at a great cost. To make...
State-of-the-Art in Vision-Based Topological Mapping and Localization Methods
Topological maps model the environment as a graph, where nodes are distinctive places of the environment and edges indicate the relationships between them. They present an interesting alternative to the classic metric maps, due to their simplicity and storage needs,...
Underwater Visual SLAM using a Bottom-Looking Camera
A description of the FTT-SE protocol
The Flexible Time-Triggered (FTT) paradigm, proposed at the university of Aveiro in Portugal, makes it possible for distributed embedded systems(DES) to exchange real-time data in a flexible fashion, that is, it ensures that changes in the communication requirements...