EMRA'18 workshop on EU-funded Marine Robotics and Applications was organized at the University of Limerick from June 12 to June 13, 2018, as a part of EU H2020 Twining project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics". The goal of this workshop was to bring together a diverse range of speakers from academia and industry representatives from all around EU, who work in the field of marine robotics. At the workshop, they presented their work, enabled innovative technologies and applications, exchanged ideas, and discussed the development of marine robotics in the future.

EMRA '18 PROGRAMME

Keynote talks

• Kristin Y. Pettersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), "Underwater Swimming Manipulators"
• Fergal Brennan, Cathx Ocean Ltd, "Subsea Imaging and Measurement for Machine Learning"

EC Projects Presentations

• SWARMs: Smart and Networking UnderWAter Robots in Cooperation Meshes, Pedro Castillejo Parrilla, Polytechnic University of Madrid
• ROBUST: Robotic subsea exploration technologies, Josep Quintana, Coronis Computing S.L.
• Trial and Validation of Autonomous Sensors, Vehicles and Prototypes using the SmartBay Cabled Subsea Observatory, John Breslin, SmartBay
• MarEH4EU: Remote Software Testing & Verification over the Internet, Thomas Vogele, DFKI Robotics Innovation Center
• Marine Institute ROV operations, David O’Sullivan, Marine Institute
• UNEXMIN: Autonomous Underwater Explorer for Flooded Mines, Mike McLoughlin, 4DCoders
• RAWFIE: Road-, Air-, and Water-based Future Internet Experimentation, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, University of Athens
• Fabio Bonsignorio, HeronRobots/CNR-ISSIA, "Towards Cheap Lightweight Bio-inspired Autonomous Vehicle Manipulation and Grasping Underwater"
• Force/Position Control System to Enable Compliant Manipulation from a Floating I­AUV, Patryk Cieślak, University of Girona
• STRONGMAR: Robots at Sea, Ana Paula Lima, INESC TEC
• Fusing Engineering with Software to Improve the Efficiency of Offshore Operations, Tim Rhodes, Fugro
• UTOFIA: Real-time Range-Gated 3D Camera for Subsea Applications, Asbjørn Berge, SINTEF Digital
• WiMUST: Outline, Results and Future Perspectives, Giovanni Indiveri, University of Salento (ISME)
• MORUS: Unmanned System for Maritime Security and Environmental Monitoring, Stjepan Bogdan, University of Zagreb
• The Bluemed Initiative: Joint And Integrated Research And Innovation Strategies For Blue Jobs And Growth In The Mediterranean Area, Elena Ciappi, CNR
• EUMR: Key Marine Robotics Research Infrastructures for Starting Communities, António Sérgio Ferreira, UPORTO (LSTS-FEUP)
• MaREI - Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy, Daniel Toal, University of Limerick
• ROVs for Use in Challenging Conditions: I-ROV & ROV ÉTÁIN, Gerard Dooly, University of Limerick / Dawid Owen, FORUM Technologies

Companies

• Roy Petter Dyrdahl Torgersen, Nido Robotics, "Nido Robotics: Bringing Underwater Robots to Everyone"
• Jim Titcomb, iXblue, "Xblue: Analysis of Positioning Performance of Sparse-LBL in O&G field Operations"
• James Ives, Xocean, "Xocean: Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) for Ocean Data Collection"
• Konstantin G. Kebkal, EvoLogics GmbH, "EvoLogics: Experimental Performance of an Underwater Acoustic Network of Mobile Nodes: Operational Exchange of Navigation and Sensor Data"
• Claire Cardy, Nortek, "Nortek: New Generation DVLs for Underwater Vehicle Navigation"
• Pedro Patron, SeeByte, "SeeByte: Data Management for Long-Term Deployment"

Demonstrations

• Edin Omerdić: Ocean Rings
• Ronald Thenius: The Project subCULTron explores the Lagoon of Venice