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This paper presents the use of omnidirectional cameras on underwater robots for the rapid high-resolution mapping of shipwrecks in marine archaeology applications. In collaboration with the University of Zadar, the methodology was recently demonstrated on the Gnalić shipwreck during the Breaking the Surface 2016 workshop held in Biograd na Moru (Croatia). The robot was programmed to survey the shipwreck and the data collected was used to build 360\(^\circ \) panoramic videos, topological panoramic maps and 3D optical reconstructions. The paper describes a recently built multicamera system comprising 5 compact, high resolution video cameras. It outlines the methodology used, reports the results obtained, and discusses the challenges that marine archaeology poses to underwater robotics, as well as the contribution that this technology may bring to the archaeology community.
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This research was supported by the Spanish National Projects ARCHROV (Marine ARChaeology through HROV/AUV cooperation) under the agreement DPI2014-57746-C3-3-R and OMNIUS under the agreement CTM2013-46718-R, the ROBOCADEMY (European Academy for Marine and Underwater Robotics) EU FP7-Project under Grant Agreement 608096, and “la Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del Departament d’Economia i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya” (to J. Bosch). The Gnalic research is executed with the support of Croatian Science Foundation, in the framework of the AdriaS Project (Archaeology of Adriatic Shipbuilding and Seafaring).
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Bosch, J. et al. (2018). Immersive Touring for Marine Archaeology. Application of a New Compact Omnidirectional Camera to Mapping the Gnalić shipwreck with an AUV. In: Ollero, A., Sanfeliu, A., Montano, L., Lau, N., Cardeira, C. (eds) ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 693. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70833-1_16
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