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H2O Robotics
H2O Robotics is an SME company established 2017. The company is located in Zagreb, Croatia. Corporate R&D focuses on marine technology, autonomous vehicles and applications. The first commercial product was Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) H2Omni-X (Figure 1). Overall, the company’s mission after its establishment was to turn H2Omni-X into a marketready product capable of launching a sustainable business in the ASV industry
A Sustainable Approach for the Management and Valorization of Underwater Cultural Heritage: New Perspectives from the TECTONIC Project
Documentation and conservation of underwater cultural heritage (UCH) are crucial to preserving humankind’s history and traditions, safeguarding tangible testimonies of past human life while ensuring its accessibility to future generations. The TECTONIC (Technological Consortium TO develop sustainability of underwater Cultural Heritage) project is promoting an intersectoral collaboration between academic and non-academic professionals (i.e., archaeologists, conservators, geologists, engineers, etc.) working on different topics related to UCHs, to find solutions to the issues still existing in the field. The overall aim is the exchange of skills for the improvement and assessment of innovative materials and techniques to develop solutions and marketable products for the conservation and management of the UCH, sustainably. To achieve its overall aim, TECTONIC is undertaking activities driven by the following objectives: (a) the study, documentation, and mapping of selected UCHs; (b) the creation of decision-support tools for UCH risk assessment in a changing environment; (c) the initiation of conservation studies and protocols for conservation activities; (d) the development of open and low-cost robotic solutions for the inspection of UCH; and (e) the raising of public awareness and knowledge about UCH. All the objectives are devoted to stimulating new sustainable ideas that would bring the growth of cultural tourism and the development of new marketable products by capitalizing on the research results.Fil: Ricca, Michela. UniversitĂ della Calabria; ItaliaFil: Alexandrakis, George. Foundation For Research And Technology ? Hellas.; GreciaFil: Bonazza, Alessandra. Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche. Istituto Di Scienze Dell Atmosfera E del Clima.; ItaliaFil: Bruno, Fabio. UniversitĂ della Calabria; ItaliaFil: Petriaggi, Barbara Davidde. Instituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro; ItaliaFil: Elkin, Dolores Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. SecretarĂa de Cultura de la NaciĂłn. DirecciĂłn Nacional de Cultura y Museos. Instituto Nacional de AntropologĂa y Pensamiento Latinoamericano; ArgentinaFil: Lagudi, Antonio. UniversitĂ della Calabria; ItaliaFil: Nicolas, Stephane. Centre d'ActivitĂ© des Playes ZE Jean Monnet; FranciaFil: Novák, Michal. Synpo; RepĂşblica ChecaFil: Papatheodorou, George. University Of Patras; GreciaFil: Prieto, Javier. Universidad de Salamanca; EspañaFil: Ricci, Marco. UniversitĂ della Calabria; ItaliaFil: Vasilijevic, Antonio. H2O Robotics; CroaciaFil: La Russa, Mauro Francesco. UniversitĂ della Calabria; Italia. Foundation For Research And Technology ? Hellas.; Greci
Remote Operation of Marine Robotic Systems and Next-Generation Multi-Purpose Control Rooms
Since 2017, NTNU’s Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory has been developing an
infrastructure for remote marine/subsea operations in Trondheim Fjord. The infrastructure, named
the OceanLab subsea node, allows remote experimentation for three groups of assets: seabed infrastructure, surface or subsea vehicles/robots, and assets at remote experimentation sites. To achieve this
task, a shoreside control room serves as a hub that enables efficient and diverse communication with
assets in the field as well as with remote participants/operators. Remote experimentation has become
more popular in recent years due to technological developments and convenience, the COVID-19
pandemic, and travel restrictions that were imposed. This situation has shown us that physical
presence at the experimentation site is not necessarily the only option. Sharing of the infrastructure
among different experts, which are geographically distributed, but participating in a single, local,
real-time experiment, increases the level of expertise available and the efficiency of the operations.
This paper also elaborates on the development of a virtual experimentation environment that includes
simulators and digital twins of various marine vehicles, infrastructures, and the operational marine
environment. By leveraging remote and virtual experimentation technologies, users and experts can
achieve relevant results in a shorter time frame and at a reduced cost
MarTERA UNDINA project: a multi-modal communication and network-aided positioning system for marine robotics and benthic stations
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