Projects

This work is supported in part by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and in part by FEDER funding through grant PID2021-124348OB-I00 (AEI/FEDER, UE). Climate emergency has forced governements to define urgent R&D&I actuation plans towards a...

The underwater robotics team of the System, robotics and Vision Group participates in the TRASMAR project with the SPARUS II robot. TRASMAR is a project of the PLEAMAR Program, in association with the Fundación Biodiversidad, the European Union and the Maritime and...

Invasive species represent a big threat for the conservation of the local ecosystems and for the global biodiversity. In fact, they are the second cause of loss of biodiversity in the world. The invasive species can also cause important economic damages and loss if...

While commercially available Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are routinely used in survey missions, a new set of applications exist which clearly demand intervention capabilities. The maintenance of permanent underwater observatories, submerged oil wells, cabled...

This work is supported in part by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and in part by FEDER funding through grant TEC2015-70313-R (AEI/FEDER, UE). Adaptive embedded systems should be able to automatically adjust their internal strategies in response to...

Formación superior en nuevas tecnologías marinas (PEJ-2014-A-50441). Ayuda para la formación de personal técnico especializado en tecnologías para el sector náutico y naval. Programa de ayudas para la Promoción de Empleo Joven e Implantación de la Garantía...

Thanks to recent technological advances, remote and complex underwater scenarios are more accessible for scientific and industrial activities, such as surveying, sampling, rescue or industrial infrastructure inspection and maintenance. Commercial ROVs are endowed with...

SUPERION is the UIB subproject of MERBOTS project. The other subprojects are ARCHROV, leaded by the University of Girona and MERMANIP, conducted by the University Jaume I, the coordinator of the project. MERBOTS is the natural evolution of RAUVI and TRITON projects....

This work is supported in part by the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry with grant DPI2011-22992, and in part by FEDER funding. Embedded systems are an ubiquitous technology of strategic importance in modern economics. They play a central role in sectors such...

Global Objectives The TRITON project proposes two scenarios as a proof of concept to demonstrate the developed capabilities: (1) the search and recovery of an object of interest (e.g. a black box) and (2) the intervention of an underwater panel in a permanent...

This work is supported in part by the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry with grant DPI2008-02195, and in part by FEDER funding. The Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol is a fieldbus communication protocol that was first devised for in-vehicle control...

VISUAL is a subproject of RAUVI, a Spanish national project that develops and improves the necessary technologies for autonomously performing an intervention mission in underwater environments. The approach can be summarized in two different steps: (1) survey and (2)...