Cooperative Robotics in Marine Monitoring and Exploration

Marine robotics play a great role in modern exploration of marine environments. The Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb is involved in marine robotics research and is currently participating in a number of marine robotics related projects. This paper addressed the issue of using multiple cooperative marine robots (surface and underwater) for marine monitoring and exploration within the scope of CroMarX project. The project brings a new dimension to marine monitoring and exploration by introducing cooperative marine robots that increase operational efficiency. The main objective of the CroMarX project is to investigate and develop cooperative control algorithms in the area of marine robotics, taking into account both unmanned surface marine vehicles (USVs) and an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) for the purpose of marine monitoring and exploration