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Submarine cables play a critical role in global internet connectivity, energy transmission, and communication but remain vulnerable to accidental damage and sabotage. Recent incidents in the Baltic Sea highlighted the need for enhanced…
Marine debris originating from human activity has been accumulating in underwater environments such as oceans, lakes, and rivers for decades. The extent, type, and amount of waste is hard to assess as the exact mechanisms for spread are not…
Underwater acoustic (UWA) communications are essential for high-speed marine data transmission but remain severely constrained by limited bandwidth, significant propagation loss, and sparse multipath structures. Conventional underwater…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks can provide a resilient communication infrastructure to enhance terrestrial networks in case of traffic spikes or disaster scenarios. However, to be able to do so, they need to be based on…
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) commonly utilize an inertial navigation system (INS) and a Doppler velocity log (DVL) for underwater navigation. To that end, their measurements are integrated through a nonlinear filter such as the…
In-situ visual observations of marine organisms is crucial to developing behavioural understandings and their relations to their surrounding ecosystem. Typically, these observations are collected via divers, tags, and remotely-operated or…
Cooperating autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) often rely on acoustic communication to coordinate their actions effectively. However, the reliability of underwater acoustic communication decreases as the communication range between…
Network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is a common solution to achieve high-rate image transmission. The broadcast nature of these wireless networks makes this communication vulnerable to eavesdropping. This paper…
With the increasing exploration and exploitation of the underwater world, underwater images have become a critical medium for human interaction with marine environments, driving extensive research into their efficient transmission and…
Recently, UAVs endowed with high mobility, low cost, and remote control have promoted the development of UAV-assisted real-time video/image acquisition applications, which have a high demand for both transmission rate and image resolution.…
Underwater imaging plays a pivotal role in marine exploration and ecological monitoring. However, it faces significant challenges of limited transmission bandwidth and severe distortion in the aquatic environment. In this work, to achieve…
Intensified underwater activities have driven the escalating demand for reliable, flexible, and high data-rate underwater communication links. Optical wireless communication (OWC) emerges as the most promising technology for short- to…
The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and society. Many of these agents are equipped with communication systems that are essential for…
An underwater portable radio antenna operating in the 50 MHz band and efficient for launching surface electromagnetic waves at the seawater/air interface is presented. The antenna operation is based on the field enhancement at the antenna…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly important role in military, public, and civilian applications, where providing connectivity to UAVs is crucial for its real-time control, video streaming, and data collection. Considering…
The millimeter-wave bands have been attracting significant interest as a means to achieve major improvements in data rates and network efficiencies. One significant limitation for use of the millimeter-wave bands for cellular communication…
Visual monitoring operations underwater require both observing the objects of interest in close-proximity, and tracking the few feature-rich areas necessary for state estimation.This paper introduces the first navigation framework, called…
Non-navigable rivers and retention ponds play important roles in buffering communities from flooding, yet emergency planners often have no data as to the volume of water that they can carry before flooding the surrounding. This paper…
Consensus formation tracking of multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) subject to nonlinear and uncertain dynamics is a challenging problem in robotics. To tackle this challenge, a distributed bioinspired sliding mode controller is…