New Paper Published: Survey on Intermediation Architectures for Underwater Robotics

I’m excited to announce that our latest paper has been published in Sensors! 🎉 This time, we’ve conducted a comprehensive survey on intermediation architectures for underwater robotics. Our study aims to provide a holistic view of the existing middleware solutions and highlight common weaknesses to pave the way for future developments (Li et al., 2016).

Key Highlights

Comprehensive Survey: We reviewed and classified the most compelling middleware solutions for underwater robotics.
Identified Weaknesses: Our analysis revealed several common weaknesses in current architectures, providing a starting point for future improvements.
Focus on AUVs and ASVs: The survey covers various types of underwater vehicles, including Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs).

Authors: Xin Li, José-Fernán Martínez Ortega, Jesús Rodríguez-Molina, and Néstor Lucas Martínez.

References

2016

Sensors
A Survey on Intermediation Architectures for Underwater Robotics

Xin Li, José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega, Jesús Rodríguez-Molina, and Néstor Lucas-Martínez

Sensors, Feb 2016

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Currently, there is a plethora of solutions regarding interconnectivity and interoperability for networked robots so that they will fulfill their purposes in a coordinated manner. In addition to that, middleware architectures are becoming increasingly popular due to the advantages that they are capable of guaranteeing (hardware abstraction, information homogenization, easy access for the applications above, etc.). However, there are still scarce contributions regarding the global state of the art in intermediation architectures for underwater robotics. As far as the area of robotics is concerned, this is a major issue that must be tackled in order to get a holistic view of the existing proposals. This challenge is addressed in this paper by studying the most compelling pieces of work for this kind of software development in the current literature. The studied works have been assessed according to their most prominent features and capabilities. Furthermore, by studying the individual pieces of work and classifying them several common weaknesses have been revealed and are highlighted. This provides a starting ground for the development of a middleware architecture for underwater robotics capable of dealing with these issues.
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