Autonomous Surface Vessels

Autonomous marine vessels can be described as surface (boats, ships) and underwater ones (submarines). They have many applications in marine transportation, marine/submarine surveillance and many challenges in environment perception/mapping and vehicle control, to be reviewed in this lecture. The following topics are covered: Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) Applications, ASV types, ASV autonomy types, Basic elements of ASV, Sensor technologies for Situational Awareness (e.g., collision avoidance), marine SA sensors, Classification of ASV GNU techniques, ASV Kinematic model, ASV dynamic model.

Autonomous Underwater Vessel Sensors

This lecture overviews Autonomous Underwater Vessel Perception that has many applications in Autonomous Underwater Vessel missions. It covers the following topics in detail: Hydroacoustics, Acoustic Beacons and Modems, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), Sonar, Imaging, Ranging / Bathymetric, Optical Sensors, Led Beacons, Gated viewing.

Sonar Imaging

This lecture overviews Sonar Imaging that has many applications in autonomous marine vessels. It covers the following topics in detail: Hydro Acoustics, Sonar Hardware, Calibration, Noise reduction, Echograms, Post Processing.

Privacy Protection, Ethics and Regulations for Autonomous Cars

This lecture overviews Privacy Protection, Ethics and Regulations that have many applications in Autonomous Cars. It covers the following topics in detail: Levels of Autonomy, Misuse avoidance & Data Security, Data Protection, Privacy protection, Moral Machine issues.

Road Traffic Monitoring

This lecture overviews Road Traffic Monitoring that has many applications in in autonomous car perception and smart city management. It covers the following topics in detail: Traffic Attributes, Traffic Counters, Sensing Technologies, Video Imaging Traffic Counters, Traffic Attributes by Detection, Traffic Attributes by Clustering, Traffic Attributes by Regression.

Road Condition Assessment

This lecture overviews Road Condition Assessment   that has many applications in autonomous car perception and smart city management. It covers the following topics in detail: