Naslov
Underwater Robotics ready for Oil Spills

Autori
Gilabert, Javier ; Sousa, João ; Vukić, Zoran, Georgiou, Georgios ; López-Castejón, Francisco ; Guerrero, Antonio ; Calado, Pedro ; Mišković, Nikola ; Vasilijević, Antonio ; Hayes, Dan ; Martínez, Daniel

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Interspill 2015 Conference Proceedings / - , 2015, 1-8

Skup
INTERSPILL 2015

Mjesto i datum
Amsterdam, Nizozemska, 23.03.2015. - 24.03.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
autonomous underwater vehicles ; oil spill

Sažetak
Underwater robotics ready for oil spills (URready4OS) is an EU DG-ECHO co-funded project aimed to join forces to make available to European Civil Protection a fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with operational capability to intervene against oil spills in European Seas using new cooperative multivehicle robotic technologies. Tracking oil spills underwater before reaching the surface by using new emerging robotic technologies will bridge the gap between existing traditional technologies (modelling and satellites) as decision support system for Civil Protection decision makers. Underwater oil plumes can come from bottom leaks and from surface patches forming subsurface plumes as recently been brought into the public eye during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident. The distributed intelligence of these devices across the spill combined with hydrodynamic modelling will be able to build up a highly accurate and dynamic image of the spill. This cooperating multivehicle robotic technology will allow a cheap, flexible, expandable, precise and rapid decision support system, improving the capacity of responding to these events. Institutions from Spain, Portugal, Croatia and Cyprus are participating in this project. Fluorometer sensor for crude and refined oil have been integrated into two types of AUVs (IVER2 and LAUV) being used in this project. Different approaches for integration have been adopted. The architecture and configuration of the whole system, together with results from the preliminary experiment held in Split (Croatia) from September 22nd to October 2nd, 2014 are shown. The objective of this experiment was to test communication between agents (vehicles) and improve protocols and software developed for multivehicle collaborative navigation. A demonstrative experiment will be held in Cartagena (Spain) in June 2015.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Elektrotehnika, Temeljne tehničke znanosti

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