Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (CO3AUVs): overview and progresses in the 3rd project year

The paper describes the “Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Co3AUVs)” EU-project. This is a 7th Framework Program STREP project under the theme: Information and Communication Technologies Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics. The project duration is February 2009 to January 2012. The aim of Co3AUVs is to develop, implement and test advanced cognitive systems for coordination and cooperative control of multiple AUVs. Several aspects are investigated including 3D perception and mapping, cooperative situation awareness, deliberation and navigation as well as behavioral control strictly linked with the underwater communication challenges. This paper presents an overview of the project with a focus on results from the final 3rd project year.