Cooperative Marine Operations via Ad Hoc Teams

TL;DR

This paper explores the application of ad hoc teamwork in marine robotics, highlighting challenges and potential solutions for enabling autonomous cooperative operations in complex underwater environments.

Contribution

It identifies key challenges for implementing ad hoc teamwork in marine settings and discusses how existing ad hoc teamwork methods can be adapted for underwater applications.

Findings

Identified specific challenges for underwater ad hoc teamwork

Discussed potential solutions based on current ad hoc teamwork research

Highlighted the importance of cooperative strategies in marine operations

Abstract

While research in ad hoc teamwork has great potential for solving real-world robotic applications, most developments so far have been focusing on environments with simple dynamics. In this article, we discuss how the problem of ad hoc teamwork can be of special interest for marine robotics and how it can aid marine operations. Particularly, we present a set of challenges that need to be addressed for achieving ad hoc teamwork in underwater environments and we discuss possible solutions based on current state-of-the-art developments in the ad hoc teamwork literature.