e-URoPe: a reconfigurable AUV/ROV for man-robot underwater cooperation

This work describes the new Unmanned Marine Vehicle e-URoPe developed by CNR-ISSIA. This Remotely Operated Vehicle is realized using the most innovative technical capabilities in order to achieve a flexible structure, adequate to withstand external impacts. The peculiar characteristics of the vehicle, on which is based the design concept, are: easiness of construction, facility of re-configuration and flexibility. Furthermore the vehicle could be completely modified without big efforts in terms of money and time. The vehicle can be equipped with different types of sensors in order to make it flexible and adaptable to various applications such as sampling of water or objects, underwater manipulation, cooperation with underwater operators or with other underwater vehicles, mapping of underwater ground and detection of vegetation lying on the seabed. (C) 2017, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.