Angelo Odetti

About

Angelo Odetti is an Italian marine robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of autonomous underwater and surface vehicle development, environmental monitoring, and ocean engineering. Based at CNR-ISSIA (now CNR-INM), Odetti has made significant contributions to the design and deployment of unmanned marine systems for both intervention and scientific applications, accumulating over 200 citations across his most recognized works. His early career was shaped by the MARIS national project (2016, 45 citations), a landmark Italian initiative developing autonomous underwater robotic systems capable of real-world intervention tasks. He went on to pioneer reconfigurable vehicle architectures, most notably the e-URoPe AUV/ROV hybrid (2017, 28 citations), which demonstrated flexible human-robot cooperation underwater. Odetti has also championed cost-effective robotic solutions for environmental science, deploying autonomous platforms in some of Earth's most demanding environments — including Arctic fjords near Svalbard — to monitor glacier melt, sea-ice dynamics, and biological change (2018, 32 citations; 2020, 23 citations). His SWAMP-class autonomous surface vehicles represent a novel approach to shallow-water and riverine monitoring, extending robotic environmental sensing into previously inaccessible ecosystems. Across his career, Odetti exemplifies how purpose-built marine robotics can drive both technological innovation and urgent climate research.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Underwater Intervention Robotics: An Outline of the Italian National Project MARIS

   45 citations · 2016
2. 2
   Cost-Effective Technologies to Study the Arctic Ocean Environment †

   32 citations · 2018
3. 3
   e-URoPe: a reconfgurable AUV/ROV for man-robot underwater cooperation

   28 citations · 2017
4. 4
   Monitoring of Sea-Ice-Atmosphere Interface in the Proximity of Arctic Tidewater Glaciers: The Contribution of Marine Robotics

   23 citations · 2020
5. 5
   River Survey Evolution by means of Autonomous Surface Vehicles

   16 citations · 2021
6. 6
   New Cost-Effective Technologies Applied to the Study of the Glacier Melting Influence on Physical and Biological Processes in Kongsfjorden Area (Svalbard)

   16 citations · 2020
7. 7
   Towards Posidonia Meadows Detection, Mapping and Automatic recognition using Unmanned Marine Vehicles

   15 citations · 2017
8. 8
   Lake Environmental Data Harvester (LED) for Alpine Lake Monitoring with Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs)

   15 citations · 2024
9. 9
   A new concept of highly modular ASV for extremely shallow water applications

   12 citations · 2019
10. 10
    A fuel cell powered autonomous surface vehicle: The Eco-SWAMP project

    12 citations · 2021

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