Gerard Dooly

Dr. Gerard Dooly (M) has worked extensively in field robotics at UL for over 10 years. His research interests include real-time 3D reconstruction, optical fibre sensors, subsea structural health monitoring, teleoperation and automated docking & intervention. He is focused on the design and development of robotics and has engaged in numerous field operations and survey missions both here in Ireland and on the continent. Some of his recent offshore operations involved environmental sensing, anti-mine countermeasure ops, remote UAS for incident response, archaeological survey and hybrid long range UAS technologies. He also has a keen interest in underwater shipwreck discovery, survey and identification and has participated in many deep water diving expeditions worldwide. He is a qualified closed circuit trimix rebreather diver and has successfully dived and identified newly discovered shipwrecks to depths of up to 135 metres.