Cloud-based Management and Control of Autonomous Marine Vehicles: Concept and Demonstration
In recent decades, emerging applications of robotic marine vehicles, including autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), rise up for replacing human beings on board to explore and exploit abundant ocean resources. Beyond achieving practical oceanic applications, smart management and control of single/multiple marine vehicles is one of the essential problems in attaining surface or underwater operational objectives. In this lecture, the latest research activities in this field at the Lab of Advanced Robotic Marine Systems (ARMs) are presented. First, scenarios and concerns on management and control of marine vehicles are introduced, in which some concepts and ideas are introduced to achieve flexible access to robotic marine vehicles. Second, cloud-based management framework is illustrated, and hardware/software architecture embedded with intelligent control methods is proposed for diverse robotic marine platforms. Finally, practical demonstrations of tele-management via mobile terminal platforms and smart control of single/multiple robotic marine vehicles are delivered, and some remarks on running projects at Lab of ARMs conclude this speech.