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Underwater Robots

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Several different kinds of underwater robots are currently used for a variety of applications such as mapping, exploration, survey, and intervention on subsea infrastructures. This entry briefly discusses their main characteristics.

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Antonelli, G. (2021). Underwater Robots. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44184-5_100029

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