Eduardo Ochoa, a doctoral student at ViCOROB/UdG, is participating in a four-week research cruise organized by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, PI Dan Fornari), from January 6th to February 2nd.. The cruise is part of a multi-year project to study and map a submarine volcano that scientists believe will…
One of the principal research lines of the Underwater Vision and Robotics Laboratory of VICOROB institute is the “long-term deployment”. This research line has as its objective to advance the technology in order to achieve future permanent robotic fleets in strategic locations. In the last months, it was sucesfully achieved,…
Understanding the marine ecosystem is key to monitoring, evaluating, and managing its functioning. To do this, the scientific community needs data. The PLOME project will obtain it with an underwater platform that will monitor the ecosystems of the seabed for extended periods. A scientific team led by the University…
Last May 2022, one of our senior researchers, Josep Forest, spent a month at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FER – Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva) at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in the framework of the DATACROSS project. During his stay, together with Professor Dr. Tomislav Pribanič…
From the 15th to the 17th of March, our researcher Marc Carreras has been at the Oceanology International (OI22) exhibition. The event is the meeting point for businesses and academics of marine robotic technology. OI22 is a must-attend event for those involved in exploring, monitoring, developing or protecting the world’s oceans,…
Over the next four years, the research team will evaluate the usefulness of a network of newly created marine protected reserves in waters between 300 and 400 meters deep. Fishing activity is one of the main drivers of ecosystem change in the Mediterranean Sea. Beyond the potential global effect…
By Khadidja Himri Supervised by Dr.Pere Ridao / Dr.Nuno Gracias Abstract In recent decades, the rapid development of intelligent vehicle and 3D scanning technologies has led to a growing interest in applications based on 3D point data processing, with many applications such as augmented reality or robot manipulation and obstacle…
On Friday 19th November 2021 took place the final survey that concluded the TNA experiments that are part of the EUMarineRobots project. The last TNA, whose end-user is the University of Southampton, consisted in gathering image data from different habitats with Sparus II AUV with a downward looking high-resolution camera….
During the week from 14th to 18th of June 2021, seven researchers from COSMER lab, University of Toulon moved to the CIRS installations within the framework of the EUMarineRobots (EUMR) project. This was their second TNA, where they wanted to improve data acquisition from the first one as well as…
Ivan Masmitja is a post doc researcher at Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) that is currently employed under the Individual Fellowships grant from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of H2020 programme. Among the different scientific missions planned, he will conduct 6 months secondment supervised by Dr. Marc Carreras, in the…