This talk presents progress on unified autonomy across diverse robot morphologies in the air, on land, and at sea. We detail the Unified Autonomy Stack, a universal approach for autonomous... Read More

The ocean is huge, deep and impenetrable to electromagnetic waves, at least beyond a few tens of metres. Sound is the primary means by which everything is sensed and communicated,... Read More

Maritime Archaeology, including both tangible and intangible maritime cultural heritage, creates a nexus where marine science and human stories meet. This lecture presents the findings of a multidisciplinary project, the... Read More

The BRIGANTINE project addresses the development of advanced tools and platforms for environmental monitoring of the Adriatic Sea. Within the project, the University of Zagreb Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and... Read More

Evaluating the course of a motorboat has applications in estimating shipping noise level, detecting vessels entering marine protected areas and monitoring the safe enterence of boats to ports and harbours.... Read More

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot.

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. The rapid transition towards Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) calls for new competences... Read More

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. The increasing use of underwater sensors and autonomous underwater platforms creates a growing... Read More

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. dive-IT d.o.o. is a Croatian company dedicated to underwater robots and technologies, as... Read More

In the undergraduate education in engineering study programmes, the teaching of practical skills is of uttermost importance to qualify the students for their later professional activities. This includes praxis-oriented thinking,... Read More

Observing the ocean across its full three-dimensional extent requires the integration of multiple platforms, sensors and data-processing approaches. This lecture presents emerging technologies for mapping and monitoring marine environments from... Read More

Despite their role as deep-sea sentinels, the foraging ecology of beaked whales remain poorly documented globally. This presentation shares insights from a year-long passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) study along Australia’s... Read More

Imagine an autonomous underwater vehicle exploring the ocean’s depths. What’s the secret behind its incredible ability to know exactly where it is and navigate complex environments with such accuracy? The... Read More

This tutorial presents a practical, cost-effective workflow for detecting marine plastic pollution using a DJI Mini 3 drone and the DroneLink platform for autonomous surveys. Participants will learn how to... Read More

How do you design an information system that enables multiple countries to securely exchange and validate critical data while complying with different legal and operational requirements? This 30-minute introductory presentation... Read More

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot.

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot.

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. The NUMAR research group (Nautics and Maritime Robotics) of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen... Read More

In recent years, research on submerged Neolithic sites along the eastern Adriatic coast has intensified. Due to the rise in sea level during the Holocene, as well as the subsequent... Read More

Over the last three decades, Intervention Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (I-AUVs) have evolved from an ambitious research vision into a promising technology for autonomous subsea operations. In this keynote, Prof. Pere... Read More

Field robotics seeks to tackle some of society’s most dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs, from offshore inspection and environmental monitoring to industrial operations and exploration in extreme environments. Autonomous robots... Read More

Rising temperatures are driving rapid and accelerating loss of land-based ice, a major contributor to global sea-level rise and regional ocean freshening. Intrusions of warm ocean water to the ice–ocean... Read More

*Three rotations every 1 hour and 15 minutes, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. Monitoring fish assemblages in coastal waters is essential... Read More

*Three rotations every 1 hour and 15 minutes, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. We develop innovative solutions for exploring and understanding... Read More

*Three rotations every 1 hour and 15 minutes, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. Hydrocord makes low-cost underwater acoustic instruments — digital... Read More

*Three rotations every 1 hour and 15 minutes, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. MARBLE’s third pilot site is an underwater laboratory... Read More

Acoustic detection of vessels and submarines by small, low-cost devices arranged in an Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) offers distributed sensing with easy deployment from moorings, vessels, or aircraft. Project... Read More

Acoustic detection of vessels or submarines by small low-cost devices arranged in an internet of underwater things (IoUT) offers distributed sensing with easy deployment from moorings, vessels or air. A... Read More

Distributed networks of small, low-cost devices, the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), offer a new way to monitor the marine environment. Deployed from moorings, vessels or aircraft, swarms of such... Read More

Detecting small underwater vehicles like diver propulsion vehicles (DPVs) is highly challenging because conventional methods perform poorly under low signal-to-noise ratio conditions. In this talk we will introduce our graph-based... Read More

This talk will describe ongoing work at Newcastle University to develop cost effective, low power, real time detection systems for the detection of thruster noise from surface and subsea vehicles... Read More

Underwater acoustic transceivers are ubiquitous in marine sensing and communication systems, and every transceiver that transmits or picks up a signal is, in effect, also converting acoustic energy into an... Read More

Source localization under water requires several ingredients: detectors, hydrophone array processing, multiple vantage points, and a capability to track the noise source over time. In addition, noise comes from unstructured... Read More

*Three rotations every 1 hour and 15 minutes, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. The MARBLE Smart Mussel Farm is a research... Read More

*Three rotations every 1 hour and 15 minutes, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. Wireless remote control of underwater vehicles through ROS2,... Read More

*Three rotations every 1 hour and 15 minutes, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. Acoustic detection of vessels or submarines by small... Read More

Understanding the marine environment requires sensing systems, robotic vehicles, communications and data-fusion capabilities to operate seamlessly as an integrated system. Achieving this is challenging in environments characterised by limited power,... Read More

This lecture will address current challenges and opportunities in the development, testing, deployment, and commercialisation of blue technologies and marine robotics solutions. It will provide an overview of the evolving... Read More

The offshore energy sector faces enormous challenges in maintaining and inspecting underwater infrastructure in hostile ocean environments. Autonomous marine robots offer a transformative solution, but achieving true autonomy in unstructured... Read More

The European Ocean Research and Education Alliance (EOREA) brings together leading European institutions to strengthen cooperation in ocean research, education and technological innovation. Within this framework, the Collaborative Research and... Read More

This tutorial presents a practical workflow for UAV multispectral mapping, from flight planning to habitat classification. Through a live demonstration, participants will learn how multispectral imagery is transformed into analysis... Read More

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot.

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. The Puffin is a compact, lightweight, and affordable autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed... Read More

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. SeaCras is a Croatian marine intelligence company that uses AI to analyze high-resolution... Read More

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. The ecological richness of Croatia’s maritime areas faces significant threats from man-made impacts... Read More

*Three one-hour rotations, organised by lanyard colour (blue, green, yellow). Please attend during your assigned colour slot. Mepeco specializes in technology engineered for extreme environments, overcoming the harshest conditions from... Read More