THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ROBOTICS
TALLINN JUNE 20 - 23 / 2011

Marine Robotics

June 20 / 2011, room X314

09.00 - 09.20 Opening an Welcome
09.20 - 09.45 Erik Maehle and  Christoph Osterloh, University of Lübeck, Germany, "MONSUN 2: Towards Underwater Robot Swarms"
09.45 - 10.10 William Megill, Bath University, United Kingdom, "Robotic Fish Locomotion and Sensing (FILOSE FP7 Project)"
10.10 - 10.35 Frederic Boyer, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Nantes, France, "Analytic model of swimming, a few extensions of the Large Amplitude Elongated Body Theory of Lighthill"
10.35 - 11.00 Hyeunseok Choi and Youngsun Ryuh, KITECH Korea, "Biomimetic robotic fish “Ichthus” for environmental surveillance"
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 11.55 Huosheng Hu, University of Essex, United Kingdom, "SHOAL: A Swarm of Robotic fish for Pollution Detection in Port"
11.55 - 12.20 Antonio Pascoal, IST - ISR Portugal, "Cooperative Navigation and Control of Multiple Marine Robots: Theory and Practice. (GREX and CO3AUVs FP7 projects)"
12.20 - 12.45 Giovanni Indiveri, University of Salento, Italy  (ISME node), "CO3AUVs and SASMA Underwater Robotics Projects Overview"
12.45 - 13.10 Gabriele Ferri (speaker), Barbara Mazzolai and Cecilia Lachi, Italian Institute of Technology, "Design, realization and sea trials of a small-sized autonomous robotic catamaran for monitoring the coastal waters quality"
13.10 - 14.10 Lunch
14.10 - 14.35 Antonio Vasilijevic and Zoran Vukic, University of Zagreb, Croatia, "Developing the Croatian Underwater Research Potential (Acronym: CURE FP7 Capacities REGPOT)"
14.35 - 15.00 Pedro J. Sanz, Universitat Jaume I, Spain, "The Integration of Autonomous Manipulation Capabilities in Underwater Intervention Systems: A Case Study Based on two Ongoing Projects (FP7-Trident and the Spanish-RAUVI)"
15.00 - 15.25 Benedetto Allotta, University of Firenze and University of Pisa, Italy, "THESAURUS: a Marine Robotics Project for Archaeological Applications"
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.25 Lorenzo Brignone, Jan Opderbecke, Vincent Rigaud, IFREMER, France, "Underwater robotics R&D vs. operational systems at IFREMER (Tentative: to be confirmed)"
16.25 - 16.50 Massimo Caccia, CNR - ISSIA, Genova Unit, Italy, "FP7 MINOAS - Marine INspection rObotic Assistant System"
16.50 - 17.15 David Lane, Ocean Systems Laboratory, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, "From Research to Revenues – the Evolution of AUVs for  Subsea Inspection Repair and Maintenance"
17.15 - 17.40 Thomas Schmickl, University of Graz,  Austria, "CoCoRo - a self-aware robotic underwater swarm"
17.40 - 17.50 Conclusions