Name: ROADMAP – Robot-Aided Diver Navigation in Mapped Environments
Acronym: ROADMAP
Funding: ONR-NICOP
Start and end date: 01/10/2021-30/04/2024
Coordinator: University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
About the project:
The main objectives of the project are to develop telemetry transmission protocols for wired and reliable wireless data exchange from the autonomous underwater vehicle BUDDY to the Diver Augmented Vision Display (DAVD) for the purpose of enhancing diver navigation; develop algorithms for precise diver navigation during free SCUBA diving by exploiting multisensory measurements onboard the BUDDY vehicle while tracking the diver; develop algorithms for precise diver localization in previously mapped environments by exploiting BUDDY vehicle map-based localization and sonar-based diver perception; to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed robot-aided diver navigation solutions in a real environment.