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In this talk I will discuss the problem of finding, tracking and sampling dynamic features of the ocean with coordinated multi-domain vehicles. First, I will briefly describe challenges in ocean... Read More

Autonomous underwater vehicles are around for some time but their capabilities are still limited to the survey, monitoring and search tasks. The industry still relies on using heavy work-class remotely... Read More

The Swedish AUV Ran, a Kongsberg Hugin AUV with 3000 m depth rating, was operated during the N.B. Palmer expedition to the Thwaites glacier (Antarctica) in February and March 2019.... Read More

This talk presents the Entropy approach to modeling and performance evaluation of Intelligent Machines (IMs), which are modeled as hierarchical, multi-level structures. It provides a chronological summary of developments related... Read More

The tutorial will present a set of open-source tools developed by our research group at the CIRS laboratory, directed towards researchers working in all fields of underwater mobile robotics, i.e.,... Read More

In this tutorial, we will showcase the use of Neptus as an interoperability infrastructure for controlling different unmanned vehicles, irrespective of their underlying software platforms. Neptus is a software tool... Read More

The tutorial will present a set of open-source tools developed by our research group at the CIRS laboratory, directed towards researchers working in all fields of underwater mobile robotics, i.e.,... Read More

In this tutorial, we will showcase the use of Neptus as an interoperability infrastructure for controlling different unmanned vehicles, irrespective of their underlying software platforms. Neptus is a software tool... Read More

The short course provides a comprehensive study of navigation and control of underwater, ground and aerial robotic vehicles. It summarizes kinematics, dynamics and equations of motion, and continues with navigation... Read More

Groundwater resources qualification and quantification is an urgent issue, nowadays and for the next generations. The knowledge of the underground hydraulic network is very partial, and requires dangerous and limited... Read More

Ocean sciences rely on underwater vehicles and observation systems for tasks covering exploration, assessment, medium and long term monitoring in various disciplines. Ifremer develops and manages the underwater vehicle assets... Read More

River plumes are generated by the flow of buoyant river water into the coastal ocean. They are generally a turbid freshwater feature flowing from land and outside the bounds of... Read More

Human-made and environmental processes in the maritime environment are becoming increasingly complex due to the intensification of human activity and its impact on the natural environment. Understanding these complex and... Read More

During the last several years, several big projects have studied the possibility to cultivate algae in the sea and on land for the use in integrated bio-refineries producing food, feed,... Read More

Visual recognition has experienced drastic transformations due to the adoption of machine learning techniques since the early 2000’s, and in particular the widespread adoption of   deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)... Read More

The adoption of hybrid navigation and communication technology for marine robotic platforms is increasing. Overview operational case studies where hybrid acoustic, inertial and optical systems have been employed on robotic... Read More

ROS is quickly gaining traction within the AUV community as a readily available middleware that is easy to set up and use. In the larger robotics community, the adoption of... Read More

In this tutorial, we will showcase the use of Neptus as an interoperability infrastructure for controlling different unmanned vehicles, irrespective of their underlying software platforms. Neptus is a software tool... Read More

ROS is quickly gaining traction within the AUV community as a readily available middleware that is easy to set up and use. In the larger robotics community, the adoption of... Read More

The adoption of hybrid navigation and communication technology for marine robotic platforms is increasing. Overview operational case studies where hybrid acoustic, inertial and optical systems have been employed on robotic... Read More

The combined use of acoustic imaging, underwater photogrammetry, Virtual/Augmented Reality (V/AR), and acoustic communications enables the possibility to create high-quality digital 3D reconstruction of underwater cultural assets and to build... Read More

After a brief overview of how the concept of POrtable Pelagig Autonomous Robotic Technology (POP-ART) is implemented by the Proteus robotic vehicle for polar, harbour and coastal applications in ROV,... Read More

Over the last decade, the modern world has been transitioning into what is known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Within archaeology, rapid advancements in the areas of sonar, photogrammetry, LiDAR... Read More

Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UWASN) suffer from a limited bandwidth, long propagation delay, half-duplex nature of the links, high packet loss, and many other challenges. Due to both logistical and... Read More

Between 2015 and 2017, the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (Black Sea MAP) discovered and recorded 65 shipwreck sites dating from the 5th/4th Century BC to the 19th Century AD... Read More

Founded in 2006, Blueprint Subsea are innovative designers and manufacturers of underwater sonar, positioning and navigation systems. Providing solutions for subsea and offshore markets, Blueprint Subsea offers a diverse and... Read More

In underwater surveys, many different kinds of sonars are used to capture different characteristics of the seafloor. In industrial surveys in particular, large amounts of data are captured and saved... Read More

Founded in 2006, Blueprint Subsea are innovative designers and manufacturers of underwater sonar, positioning and navigation systems. Providing solutions for subsea and offshore markets, Blueprint Subsea offers a diverse and... Read More

In underwater surveys, many different kinds of sonars are used to capture different characteristics of the seafloor. In industrial surveys in particular, large amounts of data are captured and saved... Read More

In 2007 2G Robotics invented a series of deployable underwater laser line scanners (ULS-100, 200 and 500) to provide the highest resolution, precision and spatial accuracy of a 3D model... Read More

Besides their apparent beauty and majestic appearance and economic impact on seasonal tourism along the iceberg alley, icebergs represent a significant threat to marine transportation and off-shore operations. Fundamental to... Read More

The northern Adriatic represents the northernmost and thus the coldest biogeographic sector of the Mediterranean Sea. For this reason, marked changes of the composition of benthic macroalgal communities due to... Read More

The newest addition to the University of Limerick CRIS’s infrastructures and equipment is the MRE ROV Étaín – a light weight work class ROV. The ROV was commissioned in Q2... Read More

As AI systems are increasingly being adopted for the control of robotics and autonomous systems, the challenge of providing explanations and supporting interaction with humans is becoming crucial. Partly this... Read More

Lecture by Martin Ludvigsen – TBA

ecoSUB Robotics Limited is a company spun out of Planet Ocean Limited following a partnership with National Oceanography Centre, Southampton to develop ecoSUB micro AUVs. ecoSUB AUVs are smart, low... Read More

For over 70 years, the only underwater (UW) communications standard has been the analogue UW telephone, known as ‘Gertrude’. With the rapid rise in the availability and use of autonomous... Read More

For over 70 years, the only underwater (UW) communications standard has been the analogue UW telephone, known as ‘Gertrude’. With the rapid rise in the availability and use of autonomous... Read More

ecoSUB Robotics Limited is a company spun out of Planet Ocean Limited following a partnership with National Oceanography Centre, Southampton to develop ecoSUB micro AUVs. ecoSUB AUVs are smart, low... Read More

Demonstration of the basic functionalities of AUV System developed for BONUS SEAMOUNT project – new innovative underwater vehicle system for detection, monitoring and studying submarine groundwater discharge and associated nutrient... Read More

In recent years, long-term autonomy and persistent autonomy have become key areas of interest for marine robotics researchers. The current generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Autonomous Surface Vessels... Read More

The last decade has witnessed tremendous progress in the development of marine technologies that are steadily affording scientists advanced equipment and methods for ocean exploration and exploitation. Recent advances in... Read More

This talk will walk the audience through a story of being inspired by extraordinary cognitive skills of fish and sea mammals through see-it-works! laboratory prototypes to field deployable robot sensors... Read More

In Sept 16, a very good friend was diagnosed with a possible life threatening illness. All his life he had wanted to dive the Lusitania. Despite many promises to him... Read More

Underwater mission in subsea cable inspection and intervention is quite interesting yet very challenging. Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) carrying on dual arms is a promising marine robotic equipment to enable... Read More

The story of Blueye started early 2014. Erik Dyrkoren was working on the idea behind Blueye at Marintek and NTNU AMOS where he met Martin Ludvigsen, Professor of Underwater Technology... Read More

The tutorial contains the explanations to the construction, architecture and application programming interface of the Software Defined USBL-Modem (SDM-USBL) – new product of Evologics GmbH. The tutorial contains a demonstration... Read More

For over 70 years, the only underwater (UW) communications standard has been the analogue UW telephone, known as ‘Gertrude’. With the rapid rise in the availability and use of autonomous... Read More

The tutorial contains the explanations to the construction, architecture and application programming interface of the Software Defined USBL-Modem (SDM-USBL) – new product of Evologics GmbH. The tutorial contains a demonstration... Read More

The story of Blueye started early 2014. Erik Dyrkoren was working on the idea behind Blueye at Marintek and NTNU AMOS where he met Martin Ludvigsen, Professor of Underwater Technology... Read More