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Dates: 30 October - 7th October 2018 Location: Biograd na Moru, Croatia URL: bts.fer.hr
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Breaking the Surface 2018 summer school was held from 30th September until 7th October in Biograd na Moru (Croatia) in the scope of H2020 "EXCELLABUST- Excelling LABUST in a marine robotics" project.
BtS2018 gathered more than 200 participants from marine robotics field and its applications - marine biology, archaeology, security, oceanology, geology etc.
Following successes from last two year, we organized again Innovation Tuesday, a day dedicated to lectures about the creation of corporate spin-offs, on how to attract investments and tips and tricks in international businesses in the form of Innovation Management Training.
PROGRAMME
BtS program is comprised of academic lectures, hands-on tutorials, workshop, presentation of projects and equipment, and company demonstrations. This year, the following programme was presented:
- LECTURES
Lectures by experts in the domains of Marine robotics (MAROB), Marine biology (MARBIO), Maritime archaeology (MARCH), Maritime security (MARSEC) and Innovations (INNOVA).
List of speakers:
Marine robotics (MAROB):
- Aviad Avni, University of Haifa, Isreal: Advanced maneuvering and vision algorithms for surveys with the SPARUS II AUV
- Milica Stojanović, Northeastern University, USA: Underwater acoustic communications: Fundamentals and new results
- Torsten Jeinsch, Martin Kurowski, University of Rostock, Germany: Key technologies towards the vision of complex autonomous underwater operations: From project SMIS to MUM
- William Kirkwood, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA: Shearwater: The future of hybrid autonomous marine vehicles
- Alexander Philips, National Oceanography Centre, UK: Oceanids: Development of next generation marine autonomous systems for ocean science
- Tim Mundon, University of Washington, USA: Micro-scale wave energy generation for autonomous sensors and robotics
- Walter Caharija, SINTEF Ocean AS, Norway: Autonomy and remote control technology in sea aquaculture activities
- Xianbo Xiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China: Cloud-based Management and Control of Autonomous Marine Vehicles: Concept and Demonstration
- Iain A. Anderson, University of Auckland, New Zealand: A fast fish-like human-powered racing submarine
Marine biology (MARBIO):
- Ivona Cetinić, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/USRA, USA: Chasing ocean carbon – from sky to sea and below
- Andrea Gori, Institut de Ciències del Mar - Consejo Superios de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain: Submarine technology for the study and conservation of deep coral gardens and cold-water coral reefs
Marine archaeology (MARCH):
- Bridget Buxton, University of Rhode Island, USA: “We’re (not) going to need a bigger boat”: the tech that will replace traditional research vessels in deep sea and coastal environments
- Kotaro Yamafune, Texas A&M University, USA: A brief history of ancient ships
- Irena Radić Rossi, University of Zadar, Croatia: How to protect an outstanding shipwreck site?
Maritime security (MARSEC):
- Philip McGillivary, US Coast Guard Pacific Area, USA: Cyber-security solutions for unmanned systems, and their use in conjunction with new technologies to advance port security and maritime domain awareness
- Niv David, Tel Aviv University, Israel: Cyber security for marine technologies
Marine geology (MARGEO):
- Hironobu Kan, Kyushu University, Japan: New survey visualization: Merging photogrammetric 3D model with a multibeam bathymetry
- Marko Bakašun, GEOmar d.o.o., Croatia: ROV inspection
- Manuel Bensi, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS: Exploring the ocean and the seabed: oceanographic case studies where marine robotics can be applied
Innovation Tuesday (INNOVA) lectures:
- Yvan Petillot, Heriot-Watt University, UK: The ORCA Hub: Offshore robotics for certification of assets
- Scott Reed, SeeByte, UK: The evolution of smart software within maritime robotics
- Daniel M. Lofaro, George Mason University, USA: Robots in politics and business
- Paul Oh, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA: Consumer Robotics in the Age of Acceleration
- Miriam Rueda, Asociación Emerge, Spain: Protoatlantic – Protoatlantic – a European accelerator program of the marine sector
- Marc Carreras, IQUA Robotics, Spain: IQUA Robotics: past, present and future
- Iain Vincent, Planet Ocean Limited / ecoSUB Robotics Limited, UK: Democratising the AUV: ecoSUB Robotics – from concept to commercial reality
- Enrique Gonzalez Sancho, Nido Robotics, Spain: Entrepreneurship in marine robotics
- Marin Bek, H2O Robotics, Croatia: Experiences in building an international business
- James Ives, XOCEAN, Ireland: Unmanned ocean data collection
- António Sérgio Ferreira, Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática (UPorto), Portugal: EUMarineRobots: The “Oprah” of Marine Robotics
- TUTORIALS:
- Mandar Chitre, Chinmay Pendharkar, Prasad Anjangi, Manu Ignatius, Subnero, Singapore: Hands-on with software-defined modems & underwater networks
- Barbara Arbanas; Anja Babić; Ivan Lončar; Milan Marković; Filip Mandić; Goran Vasiljević, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia: subCULTron – underwater measurements using aMussel
- Nuno Gracias; László Neumann, Computer Vision and Robotics Institute of the Universitat de Girona/ ViCOROB, Portugal: Underwater Optical Image Enhancement Techniques
- Narcís Palomeras, University of Girona, (Spain) and Natàlia Hurtós, IQUA Robotics, (Spain): Sparus II
- WORKSHOP
- Narcís Palomeras, University of Girona, Spain and Natàlia Hurtós, IQUA Robotics, Spain: Workshop: defining a ROS package to standardize underwater messages
- DEMONSTRATIONS
- Thomas Glotzbach; Sabir Ouchen; Joaquim Pinol Bel, Torpex Scooter, Germany: Underwater scooter Torpex with newly developed hollow shaft motor
- Iain Vincent; Jeremy Sitbon, Ecosub Robotics, UK: Smart network localisation
- Marko Bakašun; Matej Ćurić; Ivor Meštrović, Geomar, Croatia: ROV inspection
- Enrique Gonzalez Sancho, Nido Robotics, Spain: Enrique Gonzalez Sancho
- COMPANY PRESENTATIONS
- Martin Ludvigsen, Norway: BLUEYE ROBOTICS
- Tom Bennetts, Colin Sutherland, UK: SONARDYNE INTERNATIONAL LTD
- Konstantin Kebkal, Oleksiy Kebkal, Germany: EVOLOGICS
- Robin Sharphouse, Kevin Webster, UK: BLUEPRINT SUBSEA
