Towards autonomous area inspection with a bio-inspired underwater legged robot

Giacomo Picardi,Rossana Lovecchio,Marcello Calisti,Giacomo Picardi,Rossana Lovecchio,Marcello Calisti

Recently, a new category of bio-inspired legged robots moving directly on the seabed have been proposed to complement the abilities of traditional underwater vehicles and to enhance manipulation and sampling tasks. So far, only tele-operated use of underwater legged robots has been reported and in this paper we attempt to fill such gap by presenting the first step towards autonomous area inspectio...