Author: cirs

10 February
In News, PhD Thesis by cirs

DOCTORAL THESIS: UNDERWATER 3D SENSING USING STRUCTURED LIGHT: DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERWATER LASER SCANNER AND A NON-RIGID POINT CLOUD REGISTRATION METHOD

By Miguel Castillón Sánchez Supervised by Dr.Pere Ridao Rodríguez / Dr. Josep Forest Collado ABSTRACT Accurate underwater 3D perception is essential to advance towards the automation of expensive, dangerous and/or time-consuming tasks, such as the inspection, maintenance and repair of off-shore industrial sites. Accurate underwater 3D sensors can potentially have a large positive…

01 February
In News by cirs

Exploring the Depths: Eduardo Ochoa’s Journey

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…

05 September
In Projects by cirs

Autonomous docking achieved

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,…

11 July
In Projects by cirs

PLOME, a research project to monitor marine ecosystems

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…

09 June
In 3D vision by cirs

RESEARCH STAY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB

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…

18 March
In News by cirs

We attended Oceanology International 2022 in London

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,…

23 November
In News, Projects by cirs

FINAL EUMR TNA EXPERIMENTS AT UDG

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….