Coordinators
The coordinators of this Topic Group are:
2020 - Gabriele Ferri, Coordinator, CMRE, and Enrico Simetti, Deputy, UNIGE
2017-2020 Gianluca Antonelli, UNICAS, and Thomas Voegele, DFKI
2014-2017 Massimo Caccia, CNR
Join the Topic Group
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Then go to My Topic Groups select the "Available sites" tab, and find "Marine Robotics" in the list of topic groups to request to join.
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Introduction
Welcome to the Marine Robotics euRobotics Topic Group!
The oceans and robotics
The importance of Oceans for mankind life and prosperity is paramount. Oceans englobes 99% of biosphere, regulate Earth’s temperature, provide us with oxygen, food, drinking water, energy, raw materials, medication and even recreation and culture. Human activities and business deeply rely on the seas. Maritime transport represents 80% of world’s trade, while energy harvesting activities are shifting more and more to marine environments, from gas&oil. Robotics and new technologies can open new horizons and possibilities in exploring, defending and operating in the Oceans.
Robots can increase the spatial and temporal resolution and persistency of missions if compared to traditional ship-based approaches, and enable to operate in situations impossible for divers and traditional means.
Marine Robotics TG vision and scope
The Marine Robotics TG vision is to be the meeting place for scientists, engineers, decision makers and stakeholders for shaping Marine Robotics in Europe. The TG aims at collecting ideas, requirements, trends from a large community interested in marine robotics topics, and acting as a link between the community itself and the European Commission.
A large and heterogeneous community for fostering marine robotics
The TG not only targets marine robotics scientists and engineers from research and industry, but also all the people whose activity can be of interest and complementary for the marine domain. AI and autonomy experts, sensor developers, decision and regulation makers and, more in general, stakeholders with interested in the marine robotics domain are invited to participate in the TG activities. Also experts from other robotics domains are invited to be active in the TG, such as aerial robotics experts, since, in the future, heterogeneous and multi-domain networked systems will be necessary to address the complex challenges the Oceans pose.
Be part of the upcoming revolution in marine science and engineering
The TG will support participants in finding synergies for new ideas and projects and will facilitate meetings and collaborations through the mailing list and the website, and through meetings in person, such as at the annual workshop at the European Robotics Forum.
The Marine Robotics TG aims at supporting, in synergy with the EU Commission, the shift of marine robotics from lab solutions to more and more robust real applications.
Latest documents (in preparation of the roadmap)
Updated January 2022
TG state of the art: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JNLsdp-FNzmAGf9bQW19tUym0tBv50dg1tEynW5I7Vw/edit?usp=sharing
TG update project list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qb5wAOqvuqIqy-HvXitPU3IajfgGHI1P6e3cYGkco0c/edit?usp=sharing