Marine robotics, automation and unmanned technology is quietly bursting throughout the seas, expanding to every field of operation. Though marine robotics were around long before their aerial drones cousins, new... Read More

In 1968, the 85m RV Knorr was built for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. In 1985, Knorr supported the first ROV operations on the RMS Titanic; it was sold in 2016... Read More

The term Autonomous Marine Vehicle (AMV) is intended to encompass an entire class of systems operating in the marine environment. The concept is to view autonomy accomplishing work in the... Read More

Blueye underwater drones for the consumer and low end professional market. Website: www.blueyerobotics.com

The underwater medium raises significant challenges for the processing of optical images. Two main processes dictate the behaviour of light in water: absorption and scattering. Absorption accounts for the conversion... Read More

The underwater medium raises significant challenges for the processing of optical images. Two main processes dictate the behaviour of light in water: absorption and scattering. Absorption accounts for the conversion... Read More

Nido Robotics manufactures small sized ROVs for professional applications, such as visual inspections, object recovery or water quality monitoring. During the demonstration you will learn how to operate a mini-ROV:... Read More

Blueye underwater drones for the consumer and low end professional market. Website: www.blueyerobotics.com Tutorial hands-on and demos are divided in three groups which will rotate together every hour: 15:30 –... Read More

ORCA Hub is a £36M programme aimed at addressing the offshore energy industry vision for a completely autonomous offshore energy field. The Hub brings together leading experts from five UK... Read More

This presentation looks at the rapid evolution of maritime robotics during the last ten years, which has seen vehicles transition from being manually operated data collection devices to sophisticated assets... Read More

Lofaro will discuss robots in the real-world with a focus on humanoid and legged robots. Specific points will include developing software infrastructures to create ubiquitous “skills” for the creation of... Read More

The lines between consumer electronics and consumer robotics grow blurry each year. For example, over 400 robotics companies exhibited at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Devices like drones, virtual... Read More

Protoatlantic is an acceleration program of start-ups related to the marine/maritime sector which will be developed in Canary Island (Spain) in the next 3 years. It is funded by the... Read More

The Robot Operative System (ROS) has become a de facto standard for robot programming. The underwater community is also following this trend and adopting it as its main middleware. However,... Read More

IQUA Robotics is a spin off company of the University of Girona that was created in 2016. The company’s goal is to become the reference manufacturer of autonomous underwater robots... Read More

ecoSUB Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) were conceived to be a disruptive technology, intended to substantially increase end user access to autonomous systems in the marine environment. Designed to be smart,... Read More

We live in a changing world. The new technologies are producing changes into our society in all meanings: medicine, agriculture, industrial production, etc. It is our responsibility to promote responsible... Read More

This presentation will show the path H2O robotics took from the last BTS when it was conceived until today. We took part in various international fairs, expos and events, made... Read More

The size of the ocean economy is set to double by 2030. Ocean data is a key enabler of this growth. XOCEAN has developed an unmanned surface vessel (USV) specifically... Read More

The marine-robotics industry is growing rapidly and is a crucial high-value/high-cost sector with considerable entry barriers to R&D. Currently, Europe leads in many aspects of maritime, but lacks well integrated... Read More

We focus on improving the visual survey capabilities of the SPARUS II AUV. First, we discuss several methods we developed for recovering color and contrast in underwater scenes. Underwater images often lack... Read More

Precise mapping enables us to accurately survey and describe seafloor geomorphology and improve our understanding of environments in coastal areas. The multibeam survey method provides accurate bathymetric information about seafloors.... Read More

As the use of unmanned systems, including unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) and autonomous underwater vessels (AUVs) increases in the maritime realm, particularly for shipping and port... Read More

Difficult access has historically limited the study of deep-marine ecosystems. Only in the last decades, advanced submarine technology has made the exploration of deep marine bottoms increasingly affordable, allowing for... Read More

The UK’s National Marine Equipment Pool (NMEP) is the largest centralised marine scientific equipment pool in Europe providing scientific instruments and equipment capable of sampling from the sea surface to... Read More

Blueprint Subsea manufactures a range of world class sonar, navigation and positioning systems: Oculus multi-beam imaging sonars are designed for use across a wide variety of underwater applications, weighing less... Read More

IQUA Robotics in collaboration with the Robotics and Underwater Vision group of the University of Girona will demonstrate the capabilities of the Sparus II AUV. This is a lightweight vehicle... Read More

IQUA Robotics in collaboration with the Robotics and Underwater Vision group of the University of Girona will demonstrate the capabilities of the Sparus II AUV. This is a lightweight vehicle... Read More

Blueprint Subsea manufacture a range of sonar, navigation and positioning systems including: Oculus dual frequency multibeam imaging sonars suitable for a wide range of platforms, StarFish sidescan sonars offering fully... Read More

Inherent to ecoSUB AUVs small, low cost design is the limited ability to understand its position in the water column and navigate accurately, currently relying on dead reckoning. Planet Ocean,... Read More

Underwater wireless communications rely on transmission of acoustic waves, since electro-magnetic waves propagate only over very short distances. Acoustic waves, however, are confined to low frequencies (usually up to a... Read More

In summer 2018, an outstanding shipwreck site was discovered in the waters of the island of Pag. It consists in several hundreds of amphorae of Lamboglia 2 type from the... Read More

While research in wave energy converter (WEC) design and technology has continued to advance toward grid-scale implementation, there is a new interest in simultaneously exploring the development of much smaller-scale... Read More

The ocean is a natural resource mostly still unexplored, especially in its deepest parts. Deep ocean and seas, as well as coastal areas, are complex environments, where atmospheric forcing and... Read More

In recent decades, emerging applications of robotic marine vehicles, including autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), rise up for replacing human beings on board to explore and... Read More

John Partridge founded Sonardyne in 1971 and his vision was to improve the safety and efficiency of underwater navigation for divers through innovation in acoustic signal processing, hardware design and... Read More

Software-defined underwater modems and networks are rapidly gaining popularity due to the flexibility they afford in communicating underwater in challenging environments. With advances in low-power computing technology and flexible software... Read More

John Partridge founded Sonardyne in 1971 and his vision was to improve the safety and efficiency of underwater navigation for divers through innovation in acoustic signal processing, hardware design and... Read More

Software-defined underwater modems and networks are rapidly gaining popularity due to the flexibility they afford in communicating underwater in challenging environments. With advances in low-power computing technology and flexible software... Read More

Conventional diver propulsion vehicles (DPV) have an electric motor with a shaft and a mounted propeller on it. The underwater scooter Torpex has a new ring motor topology with 3... Read More

Efficient monitoring of large-scale deep-sea areas gain importance, especially with regard to marine resources, habitat mapping and environmental changes. In general, there are competing approaches with the use of survey... Read More

The transport of organic carbon from the surface of the ocean to its depths plays a central role in regulating atmospheric carbon, and thus the world’s climate. In many ways,... Read More

Current state-of-the-art technologies and operations for sea-based aquaculture farms are highly dependent on manual labor and close human interaction with the process and cage structures, where the need for personnel... Read More

In July 2016 the Auckland Biomimetics Lab’s human-powered fish-like submarine ‘Taniwha 2’ won the 3rd European International Submarine Races (EISR) at the QinetiQ Ocean Basin Gosport, England. Like its 10... Read More

ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle) inspection is a rather challenging task to perform correctly and efficiently. You need to have a good understanding of the equipment, its capabilities and of course... Read More

Evologics is a high-tech enterprise founded in 2000 to develop innovative key technologies for maritime and offshore industries It developed many underwater communication and navigation systems which are currently the... Read More

subCULTron aims for achieving long-term autonomy in a learning, self-regulating, self-sustaining underwater society/culture of robots in a high-impact application area: Venice, Italy. Our heterogeneous system consists of 3 different robot... Read More

ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle) inspection is a rather challenging task to perform correctly and efficiently. You need to have a good understanding of the equipment, its capabilities and of course... Read More

Evologics is a high-tech enterprise founded in 2000 to develop innovative key technologies for maritime and offshore industries It developed many underwater communication and navigation systems which are currently the... Read More

subCULTron aims for achieving long-term autonomy in a learning, self-regulating, self-sustaining underwater society/culture of robots in a high-impact application area: Venice, Italy. Our heterogeneous system consists of 3 different robot... Read More