Emilio Garcia‐Fidalgo
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands
Papers
9
Total Citations
195
H-Index
6
About
Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo is a robotics researcher whose work centers on autonomous inspection systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and computer vision for marine applications. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to the automation of vessel inspection — a field where his most cited work, "A Robot Application for Marine Vessel Inspection" (2014, 72 citations), demonstrated how robotic systems could replace the costly and hazardous manual surveying of ship hulls. Building on this foundation, Garcia-Fidalgo advanced the use of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) for semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vessel inspection, contributing multiple studies across hull mosaicing, structural defect detection, and cargo hold surveys. His research on fast image mosaicing using incremental bags of binary words (2016) reflects a broader interest in efficient visual mapping for robotic systems. Beyond aerial platforms, his work extends to underwater intervention with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and reusable software architectures for unmanned systems. With contributions spanning EU-funded projects like MINOAS and the more recent MUSSOL system, Garcia-Fidalgo has consistently translated fundamental robotics research into practical solutions that improve maritime safety and reduce human risk in hostile inspection environments.
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Top Papers
- 1A Robot Application for Marine Vessel Inspection72 citations · 2014
- 2Vessel Inspection: A Micro-Aerial Vehicle-based Approach37 citations · 2013
- 3Fast image mosaicing using incremental bags of binary words24 citations · 2016
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- 6MUSSOL: A Micro-Uas to Survey Ship Cargo hOLds9 citations · 2021
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