4 papers
SubSense: VR-Haptic and Motor Feedback for Immersive Control in Subsea Telerobotics
Ruo Chen, David Blow, Adnan Abdullah +1
This paper investigates the integration of haptic feedback and virtual reality (VR) control interfaces to enhance teleoperation and telemanipulation of underwater ROVs (remotely op…
VL-Explore: Zero-shot Vision-Language Exploration and Target Discovery by Mobile Robots
Yuxuan Zhang, Adnan Abdullah, Sanjeev J. Koppal +1
Vision-language navigation (VLN) has emerged as a promising paradigm, enabling mobile robots to perform zero-shot inference and execute tasks without specific pre-programming. Howe…
Human-Machine Interfaces for Subsea Telerobotics: From Soda-straw to Natural Language Interactions
Adnan Abdullah, David Blow, Ruo Chen +3
This review explores the evolution of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) in subsea telerobotics, charting the progression from traditional first-person "soda-straw" consoles -- charac…
AquaSonic: Acoustic Manipulation of Underwater Data Center Operations and Resource Management
Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Adnan Abdullah +5
Underwater datacenters (UDCs) hold promise as next-generation data storage due to their energy efficiency and environmental sustainability benefits. While the natural cooling prope…