Hotel Adriatic - Lecture room
Robots for karstic exploration : an underneath robotic journey
Groundwater resources qualification and quantification is an urgent issue, nowadays and for the next generations. The knowledge of the underground hydraulic network is very partial, and requires dangerous and limited cave divers exploration, or indirect and inaccurate measurements. The use of autonomous subaquatic systems will provide the necessary technological breakthrough to understand the dynamics and lucidly exploit this underground water resource. Moreover, the confined chaotic structure of the karstic environment presents exciting robotic challenges in terms of navigation, guidance, control and mission control. The presentation focuses on the recent results on this topic and the remaining open issues.