J. B. C. Davies, D. M. Lane, G. C. Robinson, D. J. O'Brien, M. Pickett, M. Sfakiotakis, B. Deacon; Subsea applications of continuum robots, Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Underwater Technology, pp. 363 - 369, April 1998.
D. J. O'Brien, D. M. Lane; The sensing subsystems and force control of the AMADEUS dextrous underwater gripper, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'98 Conference, pp. 713 - 717, September 1998.
D. M. Lane, J. Sneddon, D. J. O'Brien, J. B. C. Davies, G. C. Robinson; Aspects of the design and development of a subsea dextrous grasping system, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'94 Conference, pp. 174 - 181, September 1994.
Desmond J. O'Brien received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering and microelectronics in 1990 and the M.Eng.Sc. degree in 1992 from University College Cork, Ireland, where his research interests included discrete-time simulation of manufacturing processes and the design and control aspects of electromechanical systems for CNC machines. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K.
He joined the Ocean Systems Laboratory of the Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University in 1993, where he is currently a Research Associate. His current research interests include the development of sensors and sensing subsystems for underwater manipulators and the control of flexible actuators and underwater robots.