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euRathlon
17 February In Underwater Robotics, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB Media with No comment

euRathlon competition offers SPARUS II AUV to its participants

euRathlon is a new outdoor robotics competition which invites teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios. Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the euRathlon competition will require a team of land, underwater and flying robots to work together to survey the scene, collect environmental data, and identify critical hazards. Leading up to this ‘grand challenge’ in 2015, will be directly related land and underwater robot competitions in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The euRathlon competitions will be supported by annual workshops for competitors. In parallel, there will be an open process of developing benchmarks to allow comparison of…

ROBOACADEMY FP7 TEAM
30 January In News, Projects, Underwater Robotics, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB Media with 1 Comment

ROBOACADEMY kick-off meeting in Bremen

Today it takes place the kick off meeting of ROBOACADEMY – “European Academy for Marine and Underwater Robotics”, FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, in Bremen.   The Robocademy ITN will establish a European training and research network to develop key skills and enabling technologies in underwater robotics for the scientific and economic exploration of the oceans (e.g. offshore oilfield of the future). Through the close collaboration of leading research institutes, academia, industry, and SMEs in robotics, marine technology, marine science, and offshore industry, Robocademy will provide first-class training and research opportunities for ESRs.   GOOD LUCK to all the consortium members!

SPARUSII AUV
30 January In News, Underwater Robotics by ViCOROB Media with No comment

Welcome to SPARUSII AUV!

SPARUS II AUV was born in CIRS lab last October. The vehicle is the 7th member of ViCOROB underwater vehicles fleet. SPARUS II AUV is an autonomous underwater vehicle with a torpedo shape and is an evolution of the prototype SPARUS AUV, which was developed on 2010. As new features, it has a large payload area in its font and has more technological elements which have been developed in the lab, for instance, its thrusters or the vision systems. You can get to know better SPARUS II AUV on twitter and youtube.

udigitaledu
10 January In News, Udigital.edu by ViCOROB Media with No comment

2013: a successful year for UdiGital.edu

UdiGital.edu vol convertir-se en un referent en la difusió de la tecnologia i el coneixement científic, i en un centre on experimentar tècniques d’innovació educativa que promoguin el talent i la innovació, sempre a través d’activitats que estimulin el pensament creatiu i la consciència crítica. La idea és apropar la recerca de la Universitat a tota la societat, i en especial als joves, per tal que aquests tinguin en el futur la capacitat de generar noves idees, nous projectes, i que liderin els canvis tecnològics, socials i culturals que els tocarà viure. Aquest passat 2013 ha estat un èxit per…

batlle
22 December In News by ViCOROB Media with No comment

ViCOROB: fem 20 anys!

El grup de recerca ViCOROB, format per una seixantena de persones, treballa en projectes d’interès científic, empresarial i social. Les seves activitats es desenvolupen a l’Escola Politècnica Superior (EPS) i al Parc Científic i Tecnològic de la UdG. Va ser fundat el 1993 pel doctor Joan Batlle “amb molt poc finançament”, asseguren els actuals responsables, i amb el suport de Xevi Cufí i Joan Martí, que ara són professors de la institució. Durant aquests vint anys, la trajectòria del grup ha evolucionat exponencialment i s’ha dotat d’un prestigi dins i fora de la UdG. El 2012 van ingressar 1,2 milions…

alstom
09 December In 3D perception, News by ViCOROB with No comment

Alstom transporte and ViCOROB: partners again

ViCOROB and ALSTOM transporte keep on working together on a new project related to the 3D inspection of trains, using laser technologies. The main goal of the project is to be able to get tridimensional information of the high-speed trains in order to be able to inspect in real time the trains. It is necessary that the System is flexible enough as to be able to tune it in the future for further uses. The System should be modular and scalable to introduce, if necessary, new cameras and lasers according to the costumer requirements. The actual configuration includes 22 Photonfocus...