The 35th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics ad Mircroelectronics MIPRO 2011, CTS rook place in Opatija 21th to 25th May 2011.

Presented papers:

Z. Triska, N. Mišković, Đ. Nađ, Z. Vukić: Virtual Target Algorithm in Cooperative Control of Marine Vessels

N. Stilinović, N. Mišković, Đ. Nađ, Z. Vukić: Testing and Technical Characteristics of a Small Overactuated Marine Platform

Z. Pavlić, M. Šilić, T. Lugarić: Debugging in Consumer-Programming Oriented Environments

Two Laboratory members attended the 2012 IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles, organized by the University of Porto, Porutgal between April 10th - April 12th 2012.

Antonio Vasilijevic presented a paper titled Acoustically aided HMI for ROV navigation

Dr. Matko Barisic presented a paper titled Texture Segmentation Applied to P. Oceanica Beds'' Upper Boundary Tracking by ROVs                                                                                                                                                              

The laboratory hosted a special session on intelligent underwater systems and technologies on the FOURTH CONFERENCE ON MARINE TECHNOLOGY, in memoriam Zlatko Winkler Faculty of Engineering; University of Rijeka.

The programme is as follows:

The Laboratory was represented in the Development and Evaluation of Maritime Technologies, DEMAT '11, which took place in Split, Croatia from 26 Oct. through 28 Oct. 2011, by Prof. Zoran Vukic and Dr. Bruno Borovic. Prof. Zoran Vukic contributed with the paper "Underwater robotics - Present state and the future" and Dr. Bruno Borovic contributed with the paper "Potentials of using underwater robotics for fishing and fish farming".

The Laboratory was represented in the 18th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2011, which took place in Milan, Italy from 28 Aug. through 2 Sept. 2011, by Dr. Nikola Miskovic and Prof. Zoran Vukic. Dr. Miskovic contributed to the technical programme of the Congress with the paper "Multibeam Sonar-Based Navigation of Small UUVs for MCM Purposes". Prof. Zoran Vukic participated as a member of the International Porgramme Committee and a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems.

The 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2011, was organized by the Mediterranean Control Association in Corfu, Greece, from 20 through 23 June 2011. Cure researchers Prof. Zoran Vukic, Dr. Nikola Miskovic and Mr. Tomislav Lugaric attended the conference. LABUST contributed to the programme by hosting a special session on results of the Breaking the Surface workshop. Dr. Miskovic presented a paper titled Sonar Aided Control and Navigation Of Small UUVs and Tomislav Lugaric presented a paper titled A Modular Approach to System Integration in Underwater Robotics.

The 34th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics ad Mircroelectronics MIPRO 2011, CTS rook place in Opatija 23th to 27th May 2011.

Presented papers:

Mišković, Nikola, Triska, Zoran, Nađ, Đula:  Guidance of a Small-Scale Overactuated Marine Platform – Experimental results

Pavlić, Zvonimir, Lugarić, Tomislav, Srbljić, Siniša:  Consumer-Oriented Programming Application for Statistical Processing

Lugarić, Tomislav; Vasilijević, Antonio;  Srbljic, Siniš: Interconnectable gadgets and web services usage in supervisory control of Unmanned Underwater vehicles 

THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ROBOTICS was organized in Tallin Estonia, from 20 through 23 June 2011. The theme of ICAR 2011 was New Boundaries for Robotics. It seeks to share new ideas, weird connections, unexpected mixes of technologies, methods and approaches which have been applied to solve new kinds of problems in new application areas. As a part of the ICAR 2001 conference, workshop "Marine robotics" took place. The scope of the workshop was broad as it aimed at bringing together scientist working on diverse issues ranging from bio-inspired robot design, to sensors, navigation, guidance and control of single and multiple vehicle systems, marine manipulation, and applications as surveillance or archeological studies. The LABUST researcher Antonio Vasilijevic presented project "CURE" and its R&D results.

The 8th IFAC International Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems 2010 was organized by the University of Rostock in Warnemunde, Rostock, Germany, from 14 through 16 September 2010. Three CURE researchers, prof. Zoran Vukic, the Chairman of the International Programme Committee and Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems, and Mr. Matko Barisic and dr. Nikola Miskovic as contributors to the technical programme, attended the conference.

Mr. Matko Barisic presented some new work related to planning posture-continuous 2D paths in waterspaces with a priori known and classified clutter in his paper Geometric Primitives-Based AUV Path Planning In Cluttered Waterspaces, to the acclaim of being awardedthe Best Student Paper Award. Dr. Miskovic contributed to the programme with his research results on Laboratory Platforms for Dynamic Positioning – Modeling and Identification. (clicking on the links will take you to the matching bibliography entries wherefrom you can access the full-text versions of either paper)

The 7th IFAC International Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 2010 was organized by the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy, from 6 through 8 September 2010. CURE researcher, Mr. Matko Barisic presented a paper titled Developing the Croatian Underwater Robotics Research Potential in a special invited session: "EC projects on cooperative robotic systems in the marine-maritime field"organized by Mr. Massimo Caccia of CNR-ISSIA, Genoa, Italy on Wednesday, 8 September 2010. (the link will take you to the bibliography entry wherefrom you can access the full-text version of the paper)

The AACC & IFAC 2010 American Control Conference was organized by the American Automatic Control Council, from 30 June through 2 July 2010 in Baltimore, USA. Mr. Dula Nad, a CURE researcher, represented the Laboratory with his paper on Command filtered backstepping design in MOOS-IvP helm framework for trajectory tracking of USVs, in which he reported the scientific insights gained due to ToK facilitated by his first secondment at NURC, working with Dr. Vladimir Djapic. (clicking on the links will take you to the matching bibliography entries wherefrom you can access the full-text versions of either paper)

The 18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation 2010, was held in Marrakesh, Morocco on 23 through 25 June 2010. Mr. Matko Barisic presented a paper Decentralized Control Functions In Trajectory Guidance Of A Non-Holonomic AUV.  (clicking on the link will take you to the bibliography entry wherefrom you can access the full-text version of the paper)

The 33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics ad Mircroelectronics MIPRO 2010, CTS rook place in Opatija 24th to 28th May 2010.

A paper by Dr. Nikola Miskovic, Dula Nad and Dr. Zoran Vukic titled Guidance of Laboratory Marine Platforms was presented by Dr. Nikola Miskovic.

The IEEE Oceans 2010, Sydney conference was held in Sydney, Australia, on 24 through 27 May 2010. Dr. Vladimir Djapic, a researcher at NURC presented a paper on his joint work with Mr.Dula Nad, a CURE researcher employed at the Laboratory, titledUsing Collaborative Autonomous Vehicles in Mine Countermeasures. The presented results are an outgrowth of their joint work through thefirst and second research secondment that Mr. Dula Nad dedicated to developing collaborative guidance control mechanisms and architectures at NURC.  (clicking on the link will take you to the bibliography entry wherefrom you can access the full-text version of the paper)

The 12. Oceanology International 2010, organized in London, United Kingdom from 9 through 11 March 2010 is the world’s premier meeting place for the marine science and ocean technology community. Oceanology was attended by Antonio Vasilijević and Kruno Zupčić. The Oceanology International 2010 conference, organized by the Society for Underwater Technology, focused on the five core technical disciplines: Navigation & Positioning, Hydrography/Geophysics, Marine Environment, Geotechnics, Ocean Observation and Forecasting.

Members of the laboratory attended the THIRD CONFERENCE ON MARINE TECHNOLOGY, in memoriam Zlatko Winkler Faculty of Engineering; University of Rijeka, 30. 11. and 1.12. 2009.

The presented papers were:

The Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute's International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology 2009, held in Durham, NH, USA from 23 through 26 August 2009 was attended by Mr. Matko Barisic. He presented a paper called An Online AUV Trajectory Re-planning Software Architecture Based on the MOOS. (the link will take you to the bibliography entry wherefrom you can access the full-text version of the paper)

The Eleventh International Conference on Control Applications 2009, organized by the International Association for Science and Technology for Development, an international non-for-profit organization, was organized in Cambridge, United Kingdom, from 13 through 15 July 2009. Mr. Matko Barisic presented a paper titled The Virtual Potential Field Method As A Tool For Formation Guidance of AUV-s. (the link will take you to the bibliography entry wherefrom you can access the full-text version of the paper)

The 8th IFAC International Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft 2009, organized by Sao Paolo University in Guaruja, Brazil from 16 through 18 September 2009 was attended by three CURE researchers, prof. Zoran Vukic, who was involved in the International Programme Committee of the conference and is also the member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems, and Mr. Matko Barisic and Mr. Nikola Miskovic as contributors to the technical programme.

Mr. Nikola Miskovic presented his work detailing advances in self tunning controllers in a paper titled Tuning Marine Vehicles' Guidance Controllers through Self-Oscillation Experiments, whereas Mr. Matko Barisic presented his recent work on autonomous trajectory planning by AUVs in a paper titled Heuristic Parameter Tuning Procedures for a Virtual Potential Based AUV Trajectory Planner. (clicking on the links will take you to the corresponding bibliography entries wherefrom you can access full-text versions of either paper)

The 17th Mediterranean Control Conference 2009, organized by the Mediterranean Control Association, a non-for-profit international scientific organization, was held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 24 through 26 June 2009. The conference was attended by the CURE researcher Mr. Nikola Miskovic who contributed to the technical programme of the symposium with his work on line-following controllers based on mathematical models obtained by the use of self-oscillations, in the paper titled Marine Vehicles' Line Following Controller Tuning through Self-Oscillation Experiments. (clicking on the link will take you to the bibliography entry wherefrom you can access the full-text version of the paper)

The IEEE Oceans 2009 Conference, organized by the Bremen University in Bremen, Germany from 11 through 15 May 2009 was attended by three CURE researchers: prof. Zoran Vukic, member of the International Programme Committee of the Conference and a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems, and Mr. Matko Barisic and Mr. Nikola Miskovic as contributors to the technical programme of the conference.

Mr. Matko Barisic presented his work in utilizing mission-oriented software architectures for obstacle-discovery-triggered trajectory replanning in AUVs in a paper titled A MOOS-Based Online Trajectory Re-planning System For AUVs, while Mr. Nikola Miskovic presented his work in tuning Extended Kalman filters using a method of induced self-oscillations in a paper titled Distance Keeping for Underwater Vehicles - Tuning Kalman Filters Using Self-Oscillations.(clicking on the links will take you to the matching bibliography entries wherefrom you can access the full-text versions of either paper)