Roger Pi
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About
Roger Pi is a leading researcher in underwater robotics, specializing in autonomous intervention, perception, and navigation for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). His work focuses on replacing costly remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) with intelligent, hybrid systems capable of autonomous inspection, manipulation, and cooperative transportation. Pi’s most cited paper, “TWINBOT: Autonomous Underwater Cooperative Transportation” (2021, 63 citations), introduces a groundbreaking approach to reducing operational costs in underwater maintenance by enabling multi-robot collaboration. He has also advanced underwater perception through object recognition and pose estimation using laser scans (2018, 9 citations) and developed methods for motion distortion correction in 3D scans via extrinsic visual-inertial calibration (2021, 7 citations). Pi’s OPTIHROV project (2023, 6 citations) pioneers an optically linked hybrid AUV/ROV system that bridges the gap between teleoperation and full autonomy. His latest work, MINS (2025, 3 citations), presents a tightly coupled multi-beam echosounder-inertial navigation system for real-time 3D bathymetric inspection. With a growing citation impact and a focus on practical, deployable solutions, Pi is shaping the future of cost-effective, autonomous underwater intervention.
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- 1TWINBOT: Autonomous Underwater Cooperative Transportation63 citations · 2021
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