The long term of this ongoing research has to do with increasing the autonomy
levels for underwater intervention missions. Bearing in mind that
the speci c mission to face has been the intervention on a panel, in this
paper some results in di erent development stages are presented by using
the real mechatronics and the panel mockup. Furthermore, some details
are highlighted describing two methodologies implemented for the required
visually-guided manipulation algorithms, and also a roadmap explaining the
di erent testbeds used for experimental validation, in increasing complexity
order, are presented. It is worth mentioning that the aforementioned
results would be impossible without previous generated know-how for both,
the complete developed mechatronics for the autonomous underwater vehicle
for intervention, and the required 3D simulation tool. In summary, thanks
to the implemented approach, the intervention system is able to control the
way in which the gripper approximates and manipulates the two panel devices
(i.e. a valve and a connector) in autonomous manner and, results in di erent
scenarios demonstrate the reliability and feasibility of this autonomous
intervention system in water tank and pool conditions.This work was partly supported by Spanish Ministry of Research and
Innovation DPI2011-27977-C03 (TRITON Project) and DPI2014-57746-C3 (MERBOTS Project), by Foundation Caixa Castell o-Bancaixa and Universitat Jaume I grant PID2010-12, by Universitat Jaume I PhD grants PREDOC/2012/47 and PREDOC/2013/46, and by Generalitat Valenciana PhD grant ACIF/2014/298. We would like also to acknowledge the support of our partners inside the Spanish Coordinated Projects TRITON and MERBOTS: Universitat de les Illes Balears, UIB (subprojects VISUAL2 and SUPERION) and Universitat de Girona, UdG (subprojects COMAROB and ARCHROV)
