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About
F. Di Ruscio is a robotics and marine technology researcher whose work centers on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), underwater navigation, and intelligent perception systems for marine environments. With a growing body of influential publications, Di Ruscio has made significant contributions to advancing the autonomy and reliability of underwater robotic platforms used in inspection, monitoring, and environmental conservation tasks. Among their most notable achievements is pioneering work on stereo vision-based navigation for AUVs, which has garnered 20 citations since 2023, alongside a highly cited cooperative ASV/AUV framework exploiting acoustic localization (17 citations), addressing the fundamental challenge of GPS unavailability underwater. Di Ruscio has also applied autonomous robotics to ecological monitoring, including the boundary inspection of *Posidonia oceanica* meadows — a critical Mediterranean bioindicator — reflecting a compelling intersection of technology and environmental stewardship. Further contributions span deep learning-based object detection for underwater autonomy, stereo and monocular vision comparisons for structural inspection, and multi-sensor visual-acoustic frameworks for infrastructure assessment. With over 60 cumulative citations across a focused and rapidly expanding portfolio, Di Ruscio represents an emerging force in marine robotics, pushing toward fully autonomous, decision-capable underwater systems.
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- 2Cooperative ASV/AUV system exploiting active acoustic localization17 citations · 2021
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- 4Stereo Vision System for Autonomous Ship Hull Inspection10 citations · 2022
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