{"id":12019,"date":"2025-06-26T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/?p=12019"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:17:15","slug":"participation-at-oceans-2025-in-brest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/participation-at-oceans-2025-in-brest\/","title":{"rendered":"Participation at OCEANS 2025 in Brest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">From June 16th to 19th, Valerio Franchi and Alaaeddine El Masri El Chaarani participated at OCEANS 2025, held in Brest, France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Valerio presented the paper titled <strong>\u201cCollision Avoidance with Adaptive Potential Fields for Underwater Vehicles Using Omnidirectional Vision\u201d.<\/strong> The work, co-authored by Aurora Bottino\u00a0(a Master student from Universit\u00e0 degli\u00a0Studi di Genova, Italy),\u00a0and members of our research group Eduardo Ochoa, Rafael Garcia and Nuno Gracias, was accepted to the main technical session. It presents an algorithm designed to provide access to remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) to any non-skilled human operator. Moving an underwater vehicle close to underwater structures to capture images is a challenging task that compromises the safety of the vehicle. For this reason, highly skilled human operators are chosen for this task. We developed a collision avoidance system that uses visual information of its surroundings\u00a0from an omnidirectional camera to correct the robot\u2019s direction of travel to\u00a0maintain ROV\/AUV safety\u00a0while in proximity to\u00a0obstacles, such that anybody can operate\u00a0one without there being any collision risk.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12021\" src=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/valerio_oceans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/valerio_oceans.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/valerio_oceans-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/valerio_oceans-768x688.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alaaeddine presented the paper titled <strong>\u201cA Docking Station for the Girona I-AUV: Validation by Simulation\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0The work, co-authored by Joan Esteba (former PhD at <a href=\"https:\/\/cirs.udg.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIRS<\/a>, now post-doctoral researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and members of our research group Patryk Cieslak and Pere Ridao, was accepted to the main technical session. The paper showcases\u00a0the development process of the docking station for the Girona I-AUV. It evaluated several docking station proposals to choose the most suitable design for the vehicle. The assessment of the proposed designs focused on\u00a0three critical parameters: structural size, manufacturing cost and operational feasibility. The vertical docking design was ultimately chosen as it demonstrated an optimal\u00a0balance between these requirements. It also includes several critical innovations: a dual-axis guidance system accommodating\u00a0\u00b10.25m positional and \u00b125\u25e6 yaw tolerances, a secure sliding lock mechanism for underwater station-keeping, and integrated data\/power transfer capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12033\" src=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/alaa_oceans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/alaa_oceans.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/alaa_oceans-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/alaa_oceans-768x688.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>OCEANS conference<\/strong> was a nice opportunity to share the work we have been doing at Girona with the rest of the underwater robotics and marine science community, to learn\u00a0what other researchers\u00a0are doing, and to foster new collaborations with other research institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From June 16th to 19th, Valerio Franchi and Alaaeddine El Masri El Chaarani participated at OCEANS 2025, held in Brest, France.\u00a0 &nbsp; Valerio presented the paper titled \u201cCollision Avoidance with Adaptive Potential Fields for Underwater Vehicles Using Omnidirectional Vision\u201d. The work, co-authored by Aurora Bottino\u00a0(a Master student from Universit\u00e0 degli\u00a0Studi di Genova, Italy),\u00a0and members of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/participation-at-oceans-2025-in-brest\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Participation at OCEANS 2025 in Brest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scientific-results"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Participation at OCEANS 2025 in Brest - Vicorob<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/participation-at-oceans-2025-in-brest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ca_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Participation at OCEANS 2025 in Brest - Vicorob\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From June 16th to 19th, Valerio Franchi and Alaaeddine El Masri El Chaarani participated at OCEANS 2025, held in Brest, France.\u00a0 &nbsp; Valerio presented the paper titled \u201cCollision Avoidance with Adaptive Potential Fields for Underwater Vehicles Using Omnidirectional Vision\u201d. 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