Agility for underwater floating manipulation: Task & subsystem priority based control strategy

The need for actual autonomy in underwater robotic systems is rapidly increasing. Many challenging issues derive from such a trend, one in all the requirement of coordinately controlling the motion of an underwater floating I-AUV endowing a robotic arm, to accomplish complex manipulation tasks. This work is aimed to present a strategy based on the prioritization of tasks of equality and inequality type, once combined with Dynamic Programming techniques, for coordinately controlling the motion of such I-AUV. A general algorithmic framework is developed and simulative results supporting its resulting effectiveness are presented.

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