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International audience; This chapter describes the emerging robotics application field of intelligent vehicles – motor vehicles that have autonomous functions and capabilities. The chapter is organized as follows:- Section 62.1 provides a motivation for why the development of [...]

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International audience; This paper describes the development of a five degree of freedom towed underwater vehicle designed for condition monitoring of undersea pipelines. Its innovative design, with 6 fins actuated by 5 motors adding heave and sway capabilities to the yaw, roll and [...]

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International audience; The aim of this paper is to detect and follow the pipeline in sonar imagery. This work is performed in two steps. The first is to split an image (first experiment) or an transformed line image of pipeline image (second experiment) into regions of uniform texture [...]