Marine Robotics

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marine search and monitoring

In this project we aim to search and monitor marine environments using multiple surface and underwater agents. The applications of this project range from coral reef monitoring and underwater structure inspection to surface trash collection and search.

PUBLICATIONS

S. V. Thengane, Y. X. Tan, M. B. Prasetyo, M. Meghjani, ``Using Semantic Features for Online Video Summarization in Underwater Context'', IEEE/MTS OCEANS, 2023.
Y. W. Sui, K. X. Ming, M. Meghjani, N. Raghavan, C. Jegourel, K. Kang, ``An Automated Data Processing Pipeline for Coral Reef Monitoring'', IEEE/MTS OCEANS, 2022. [PDF]
P. Wang, M. Meghjani, G. Chen, ``Marine Trash Collection'', IEEE/MTS OCEANS, 2022. [PDF] [Video]
P. Wang, M. Meghjani, Lost at Sea: Multi-Searcher, Multi-Target Search, IEEE/MTS OCEANS, 2020. [PDF]
M. Kouzehgar, M. Meghjani, R. Bouffanais, “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Ocean Monitoring by a Swarm of Buoys”, IEEE/MTS OCEANS, 2020. [PDF]
M. Meghjani, S. Manjanna and G. Dudek, “Multi-Target Search Strategies”, IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2016. [PDF]
M. Meghjani, S. Manjanna and G. Dudek, “Multi-Target Rendezvous Search”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016. [Finalist for Best Paper Award on Safety Security and Resue Robotics]. [PDF]
S. Manjanna, N. Kakodkar, M. Meghjani and G. Dudek, “Efficient Terrain Driven Coral Mosaic Synthesis Using Gaussian Processes”, 13th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2016. [PDF]
M. Meghjani, F. Shkurti, J. C. G. Higuera, A. Kalmbach, D. Whitney and G. Dudek, “Asymmetric Rendezvous Search at Sea”, 11th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2014. [PDF]
F. Shkurti, A. Xu, M. Meghjani, J. C. G. Higuera, Y. Girdhar, P. Giguere, B. B. Dey, J. Li, A. Kalmbach, C. Prahacs, K. Turgeon, I. Rekleitis and G. Dudek, “Multi-Domain Monitoring of Marine Environments using a Heterogeneous Robot Team”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [PDF]
Y. Girdhar, A. Xu, B. B. Dey, M. Meghjani, F. Shkurti, I. Rekleitis and G. Dudek. “MARE: Marine Autonomous Robotic Explorer”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011. [PDF]