Marco Bibuli
National Research Council, Institute of Marine Engineering, MTS3 (United States), Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Consorzio Roma Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche
Papers
52
Total Citations
1,310
H-Index
16
About
Marco Bibuli is a prominent marine robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous guidance systems, underwater human-robot interaction, and multi-vehicle coordination. Based at CNR-ISSIA in Italy, he has made foundational contributions to the field of unmanned marine systems, both on and beneath the ocean's surface. His most influential work, "Integral Line-of-Sight Guidance and Control of Underactuated Marine Vehicles" (2016), has garnered over 337 citations and remains a landmark reference for path-following methodologies in marine autonomy. His 2018 survey on marine robotics challenges has further cemented his role as a thought leader, accumulating 264 citations and shaping research agendas across the community. Bibuli has also pioneered innovative approaches to diver-robot collaboration, developing gesture-based underwater communication languages through the CADDY project — work that addresses the unique hazards faced by human operators in subsea environments. His contributions extend to swarm-based coordination of unmanned surface vehicles and intervention robotics through Italy's national MARIS project. With a body of work that bridges theoretical rigor and real-world experimentation, Bibuli has profoundly influenced how autonomous marine systems navigate, cooperate, and interact with humans in some of the world's most challenging environments.
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Top Papers
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- 2Challenges and future trends in marine robotics264 citations · 2018
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- 5A Novel Gesture-Based Language for Underwater Human–Robot Interaction43 citations · 2018
- 6PATH-FOLLOWING ALGORITHMS AND EXPERIMENTS FOR AN AUTONOMOUS SURFACE VEHICLE39 citations · 2007
- 7Gesture-based language for diver-robot underwater interaction35 citations · 2015
- 8Swarm-based path-following for cooperative unmanned surface vehicles33 citations · 2014
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- 10e-URoPe: a reconfgurable AUV/ROV for man-robot underwater cooperation28 citations · 2017