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Karst generally comprises a network of underground natural conduits, resulting from the dissolution of soluble rocks, limestone, dolomite and gypsum, which may drain groundwater on a large scale. Karst aquifers,... Read More

Sensor carrying platforms may be stationary devices, such as landers and buoys, or mobile platforms, such as marine robotics, ships, aerial systems, and remote sensing satellites from space. The development... Read More

During the past five years, the development and availability of marine robotic components such as propulsion and control systems, higher energy density batteries, pressure vessels and shared and open source... Read More

In July and August of 2021, Washington-based company OceanGate Expeditions made multiple dives to the wreck of RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic with its prototype Titan 5-person submersible. The... Read More

SMaRC brings together key industrial and academic partners in an internationally unique collaborative environment. The vision is to demonstrate and enable technology transformation towards the next generation of maritime robots,... Read More

H2ORobotics is a marine technology company founded in 2017 in Zagreb, Croatia as a LABUST spin-off. Our first product is H2Omni-X, a multifunctional autonomous marine surface vehicle capable of very... Read More

Accurate dynamics models are crucial for simulation, control design and state estimation for robotic systems. In the case of underwater robots and AUVs in particular, the dynamics can be highly... Read More

H2ORobotics is a marine technology company founded in 2017 in Zagreb, Croatia as a LABUST spin-off. Our first product is H2Omni-X, a multifunctional autonomous marine surface vehicle capable of very... Read More

Researching, development and manufacturing of electric hydrofoil board.

This talk will give a brief overview of the technological developments that characterize the first European oil age – Arctic whaling in the period 1600-1900. From coastal land-based activities in... Read More

Protecting the marine environment and promoting social and economic progress requires understanding the complex interactions between marine and maritime processes. Due to limited sensing, processing, communications, and power resources the... Read More

Coastal and transitional environments are highly populated and are valuable areas, which provide crucial ecosystem services. Particularly, lagoons are very dynamic areas where physical and biogeochemical characteristics can lead to... Read More

This presentation will discuss recent research performed at NTNU on formal and risk-based methods applied to autonomous marine systems, introduced by prof. Asgeir J. Sørensen. Thomas will present his work... Read More

After the hiatus imposed by Covid-19, underwater archaeologists are returning to the world’s oceans to pursue new research questions in ever-more challenging environments: logistical, environmental, and economic. Now more than... Read More

The maritime environment requires reliable IoT sensing systems that work with limited resources of energy and link budgets. In this tutorial we will focus on embedded systems design for maritime... Read More

Simulators play a key role in the development of mobile robots. Simulating vehicle models and their environment without depending on actual hardware has proven beneficial for reducing cost and development... Read More

For millennia, agriculture and aquaculture have been a component of human society. Aquaculture, as well as its component relating to sea water known as mariculture, did not begin to expand... Read More

The Interreg Italy-Croatia InnovaMare project aims to enhance collaboration on technology transfer by creating an innovative network for underwater robotics and sensors in the Adriatic region. In this talk, a... Read More

The underwater environment is hazardous for humans since they are dependent on technical equipment for life support, have limited navigation and communication capabilities with the surface, and the underwater environment... Read More

Underwater robotics requires very reliable and safe operations. This holds especially for missions in cooperation with divers who are – despite the significant advancements of marine robotics in recent years... Read More

To understand complex spatio-temporal phenomena in our ocean, there have recently been increased efforts in using numerical process modeling, methods for data assimilation, novel computing and sensor technology. Autonomous robots... Read More

Ocean Sciences the world over is at a cusp, with a move from the Expeditionary to the Observatory mode of doing science. With the advent of ocean observatories, a number... Read More

In this tutorial we will showcase the LSTS Toolchain, a set of software tools developed at the University of Porto by the Underwater Systems and Technology Lab (LSTS) to control, plan, monitor... Read More

The marine boundary layer pays a key role in the Earth’s climate. However, current knowledge on marine boundary layer processes is still very incomplete, partly due to the lack of... Read More

Measuring and forecasting changes in coastal and deep-water ecosystems and climates requires sustained long-term measurements from marine observation systems. One of the key considerations in analyzing data from marine observatories... Read More

Quality assurance is one of the most important challenges of marine observatories. Data acquired around the globe are used to derive conclusions about climate changes, marine biodiversity, and general ocean... Read More

ODYSSEA is a user-centred project aiming to make Mediterranean marine data easily accessible and operational to multiple end-users, by harmonizing existing Earth Observing systems; upgrading operational oceanographic capacities; supporting EU... Read More

Underwater hyperspectral imaging (UHI) represents a relatively new seafloor mapping technique. As opposed to conventional digital cameras, which render colors using a red (R), a green (G) and a blue... Read More

Accurate higher resolution bathymetric mapping currently requires multibeam echo sounders, MBES, and excellent navigation. Therefore it is carried out by ships or large AUVs. A hand launched AUVs can not... Read More

A new type of very low-cost remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has been introduced in the last few years, benefitting from advances in drone and battery technology. Substituting high capacity LIPO... Read More

Robotics has gained both high popularity and interest in solving multiple problems in recent years. Though single task robots have served humanity for some time, an idea of multiple heterogenous... Read More

Q Quick-LBL (qLBL) is an underwater acoustic positioning system designed to track a target in confined waters (test or industrial pools, port areas) with high update rates. Same as a... Read More

“SWAMP learning from humans” experiment @ BTS 2021. The active involvement of citizens and stakeholders from the early stages is fundamental in research projects on the development of autonomous physical... Read More

With number of sensors and platforms deployed every day on a constant rise, now more than ever there is a need for plug-and-work solutions. Although fields like IoT have had... Read More