{"id":8565,"date":"2023-07-12T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/?p=8565"},"modified":"2023-07-12T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T06:59:09","slug":"journey-of-ph-d-roger-pi-exploring-the-depths-of-autonomous-underwater-manipulation-and-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/journey-of-ph-d-roger-pi-exploring-the-depths-of-autonomous-underwater-manipulation-and-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey of Ph.D. Roger Pi: Exploring the Depths of Autonomous Underwater Manipulation and Robotics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Pi is a Ph.D. student from Catalunya that is currently in the final stages of completing his Ph.D. studies at the <strong>Centre d\u2019Investigaci\u00f3 en Rob\u00f2tica Submarina<\/strong> (CIRS), at VICOROB.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Roger Pi obtained his B.Sc degree in Computer Engineering in 2017 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udg.edu\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universitat de Girona.<\/a><br \/>\nThen, in the same 2017, he began the <strong>Erasmus Mundus master\u2019s in computer Vision and Robotics<\/strong> (VIBOT) , a joint master\u2019s degree from the University of Burgundy, University of Girona, and Heriot-Watt University. In his Master Thesis, he mounted for the first time a dual-arm setup in the <strong>Girona500<\/strong> and developed a motion planning algorithm for it. This work was awarded with the \u201c<strong>Best Master Thesis Award<\/strong>\u201d of the academic year 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8569\" src=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RogerPi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RogerPi2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RogerPi2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RogerPi2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RogerPi2-930x620.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In June, 2019, he was awarded an <strong>FI grant to pursue his Ph.D. thesis<\/strong> in the context of <strong>autonomous underwater manipulation<\/strong>, supervised by Dr. Pere Ridao and Dr. Narc\u00eds Palomeras. In this line, he has developed projects such as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.uji.es\/twinbot\/twinbot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TWINBOT<\/a>\u201d, where two Girona500 cooperatively performed a pick, transport, and place operation of a long pipe, or part of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cirs.udg.edu\/portfolio_page\/atlantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATLANTIS<\/a>\u201d project, where a dual-arm Girona500 performs cathodic protection inspection on a wind-float structure. Moreover, he has participated in operating the robot in biological or oceanographic projects such as ResCap, <a href=\"https:\/\/plomeproject.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLOME<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepersense.eu\/www\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DEEPERSENSE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Pi is a Ph.D. student from Catalunya that is currently in the final stages of completing his Ph.D. studies at the Centre d\u2019Investigaci\u00f3 en Rob\u00f2tica Submarina (CIRS), at VICOROB. &nbsp; Roger Pi obtained his B.Sc degree in Computer Engineering in 2017 at Universitat de Girona. Then, in the same 2017, he began the Erasmus&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"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":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}