ARchaeological RObot systems for the World's Seas (ARROWS) EU Project proposes to adapt and develop low-cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Technologies to significantly reduce the cost of archaeological operations, covering the full extent of archaeological campaign. ARROWS methodology is to identify the archaeologists requirements in all phases of the campaign and to propose related technological solutions. Starting from the necessities identified by archaeological project partners in collaboration with the Archaeology Advisory Group, a board composed of European archaeologists from outside ARROWS, the aim is the development of a heterogeneous team of cooperating AUVs capable of comply with a complete archaeological autonomous mission. Three new di erent AUVs have been designed in the framework of the project according to the archaeologists' indications: MARTA, characterized by a strong hardware modularity for ease of payload and propulsion systems configuration change; U-CAT, a turtle inspired bio-mimetic robot devoted to shipwreck penetration and A Size AUV, a vehicle of small dimensions and weight easily deployable even by a single person. These three vehicles will cooperate within the project with AUVs already owned by ARROWS partners exploiting a distributed high-level control software based on the World Model Service (WMS), a storage system for the environment knowledge, updated in real-time through online payload data process, in the form of an ontology. The project includes also the development of a cleaning tool for well-known artifacts maintenance operations. The paper presents the current stage of the project that will lead to overall system nal demonstrations, during Summer 2015, in two different scenarios, Sicily (Italy) and Baltic Sea (Estonia).

The ARROWS project: adapting and developing robotics technologies for underwater archaeology / Allotta, Benedetto; Costanzi, Riccardo; Ridolfi, Alessandro; Colombo, Carlo; Bellavia, Fabio; Fanfani, Marco; Pazzaglia, Fabio; Salvetti, Ovidio; Moroni, Davide; Pascali, Maria Antonietta; Reggiannini, Marco; Kruusmaa, Maarja; Salum ae, Taavi; Frost, Gordon; Tsiogkas, Nikolaos; Lane, David M.; Cocco, Michele; Gualdesi, Lavinio; Roig, Daniel; G undogdu, Hilal Tolasa; Tekdemir, Enis I.; Dede, Mehmet Ismet Can; Baines, Steven; Agneto, Floriana; Selvaggio, Pietro; Tusa, Sebastiano; Zangara, Stefano; Dresen, Urmas; L atti, Priit; Saar, Teele; Daviddi, Walter.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2015), pp. 0-0. (Intervento presentato al convegno IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles (NGCUV2015) tenutosi a Girona, Spagna nel 28-30 aprile 2015) [10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.032].

The ARROWS project: adapting and developing robotics technologies for underwater archaeology

ALLOTTA, BENEDETTO;RIDOLFI, ALESSANDRO;COLOMBO, CARLO;BELLAVIA, FABIO;FANFANI, MARCO;PAZZAGLIA, FABIO;
2015

Abstract

ARchaeological RObot systems for the World's Seas (ARROWS) EU Project proposes to adapt and develop low-cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Technologies to significantly reduce the cost of archaeological operations, covering the full extent of archaeological campaign. ARROWS methodology is to identify the archaeologists requirements in all phases of the campaign and to propose related technological solutions. Starting from the necessities identified by archaeological project partners in collaboration with the Archaeology Advisory Group, a board composed of European archaeologists from outside ARROWS, the aim is the development of a heterogeneous team of cooperating AUVs capable of comply with a complete archaeological autonomous mission. Three new di erent AUVs have been designed in the framework of the project according to the archaeologists' indications: MARTA, characterized by a strong hardware modularity for ease of payload and propulsion systems configuration change; U-CAT, a turtle inspired bio-mimetic robot devoted to shipwreck penetration and A Size AUV, a vehicle of small dimensions and weight easily deployable even by a single person. These three vehicles will cooperate within the project with AUVs already owned by ARROWS partners exploiting a distributed high-level control software based on the World Model Service (WMS), a storage system for the environment knowledge, updated in real-time through online payload data process, in the form of an ontology. The project includes also the development of a cleaning tool for well-known artifacts maintenance operations. The paper presents the current stage of the project that will lead to overall system nal demonstrations, during Summer 2015, in two different scenarios, Sicily (Italy) and Baltic Sea (Estonia).
2015
Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles (NGCUV2015)
IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles (NGCUV2015)
Girona, Spagna
28-30 aprile 2015
Allotta, Benedetto; Costanzi, Riccardo; Ridolfi, Alessandro; Colombo, Carlo; Bellavia, Fabio; Fanfani, Marco; Pazzaglia, Fabio; Salvetti, Ovidio; Moroni, Davide; Pascali, Maria Antonietta; Reggiannini, Marco; Kruusmaa, Maarja; Salum ae, Taavi; Frost, Gordon; Tsiogkas, Nikolaos; Lane, David M.; Cocco, Michele; Gualdesi, Lavinio; Roig, Daniel; G undogdu, Hilal Tolasa; Tekdemir, Enis I.; Dede, Mehmet Ismet Can; Baines, Steven; Agneto, Floriana; Selvaggio, Pietro; Tusa, Sebastiano; Zangara, Stefano; Dresen, Urmas; L atti, Priit; Saar, Teele; Daviddi, Walter.
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