Turetta, R. Viviani ”F´ olaga: a low cost autonomous un- derwater vehicle combining glider and AUV capabilities”, Ocean Engineering Journal, in printing.

Chapter 6 Publications

• Journal papers

1. A. Alvarez, A. Caffaz, A. Caiti, G. Casalino, L. Gualdesi,A.

Turetta, R. Viviani ”F´ olaga: a low cost autonomous un- derwater vehicle combining glider and AUV capabilities”, Ocean Engineering Journal, in printing.

2. A. Caiti, A. Munaf´ o, R. Viviani, ”Adaptive on-line plan- ning of environmental sampling mission with a team of cooperating autonomous underwater vehicles”, Interna- tional Journal of Control Vol. 80, Issue 7 July 2007 , pages 1151 - 1168.

• Conference papers

1. A.Alvarez, A. Caffaz, A. Caiti, G. Casalino, E. Clerici,

F. Giorni, L. Gualdesi, A.Turetta, R. Viviani, ”Folaga: a

very low cost autonomous underwater vehicle for coastal

Publications

oceanography”, Proc. 16

IFAC World Conference, Praha, Czech Rep.,July2005.

2. A.Caiti, A.Munaf´ o, R.Viviani, ”Cooperating autonomous underwater vehicles to estimate ocean environmental pa- rameters”, Proc. IARP Int. Workshop on Underwater Robotics IWUR 05, Genova, November 2005.

3. T.Bozzo, A. Caffaz, E. Clerici, F. Giorgi, A. Caiti, G.

Casalino, A. Turetta, R. Viviani, L.Gualdesi, ”A very low cost prototypal autonomous vehicle for harbour surveil- lance and monitoring”, Proc. IARP Int. Workshop on Underwater Robotics IWUR 05, Genova, November 2005.

4. A.Bicchi, A. Caiti, D. Fontanelli, L. Greco and R. Viviani

”Adaptive non linear control of dynamic mobile robots with parameters uncertainty”, Technical Report, Dipar- timento Sistemi Elettrici e Automazione, Universit´ a di Pisa, 2005.

5. A. Caiti, A. Munaf´ o and R. Viviani ”Cooperative On-Line Planning for Adaptive Map Building in Environmental Applications”, Proc. 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control Automation MED06, Ancona, Italy, June 2006 6. A. Bicchi, A. Caiti, D. Fontanelli, L. Greco and R. Vi-

viani ”Adaptive non linear control of dynamic mobile robots with parameters uncertainty”, Proc. 8th Inter- national IFAC Symposium on Robot Control SYROCO 2006, Bologna, Italy, September 2006.

7. A. Caiti, A. Munaf´ o and R. Viviani ”Adaptive on Line

Planning Algorithm for AUVs Exploration of Unknown

Ocean Environments”, Proc. 8th International IFAC Sym- posium on Robot Control SYROCO 2006, Bologna, Italy, September 2006.

8. A. Caiti, A. Munaf´ o and R. Viviani ”RBF-Based adaptive on-line planning of AUV Teams environmental mission”, Proc. 7th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft MCMC 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, Septem- ber 2006.

9. A. Caiti, G. Casalino, C. Raciti, A. Turetta, R. Viviani ”A Semi-Autonomous Towed System for Underwater Pipeline Survey”, 6th International conference on Computer and IT Applications in Maritime Industries, Compit’07, Cor- tona, Italy, 23-25 April 2007.

10. A. Caiti, G. Casalino, C. Raciti, A. Turetta, R. Viviani

”Underwater Pipeline Survey With A Towed Semi-Autonomous Vehicle”, Proc. Oceans 2007,Aberdeen, Scotland, 18-22 June 2007.

11. A. Caffaz, A. Caiti, G. Casalino, E. Clerici, L. Gualdesi, A. Munaf’o, A. Turetta, R. Viviani ”Flaga: A Light Low Cost Auv For Rapid Environmental Assessment In Shal- low Waters”, Proc. UDT Europe ’07, Napoli, Italy, 5-7 June 2007.

12. A. Caiti, G. Casalino, A. Turetta, R. Viviani ”Distributed

Dynamic Programming for Adaptive On-line Planning of

AUVs Team Missions with Communication Constraints”,

Technical Report, Dipartimento Sistemi Elettrici e Au-

tomazione, Universit´ a di Pisa, 2007.

Publications

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