{"id":9271,"date":"2014-04-07T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2014-04-07T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:55:40","slug":"7fp-european-project-morph-the-next-step-in-the-future-of-underwater-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/7fp-european-project-morph-the-next-step-in-the-future-of-underwater-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"7FP European Project MORPH: the next step in the future of underwater robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"

From 7-11th April 2014, a number of autonomous underwater and surface vehicles <\/strong>(robots) from several European institutions will be tested in the Costa Brava area, Spain. The tests will be carried out by 26 scientists from Germany, Portugal, Italy, France, and Spain. The major goal of these field trials is to demonstrate that the MORPH ensemble of vehicles can acquire data to map the sea bottom while operating in a cooperative manner and reacting to environmental conditions. The trials will focus on the execution of an optical and acoustic surveying mission with two surface and two underwater vehicles moving in formation and avoiding on-line detected obstacles. This is a preliminary step towards increasingly more complex cooperative missions over natural rugged terrain.<\/p>\n

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MORPH (Marine Robotic System of Self-Organising, Logically Linked Physical Nodes) is a four-year project funded by the European Commission that started in 2012, with an overall budget of approximately 8.4 millions of euros.<\/p>\n

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The institutions participating in the trails are: Atlas Elektronik (Germany), Ifremer (France), Jacobs University Bremen (Germany), IUT – Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany), Computer Vision and Robotics research Institute at the University of Girona (Spain), IMAR – Institute of Marine Research (Portugal), CMRE – NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (Italy), IST – Instituto Superior Tecnico (Portugal), and CNR – Istituto di Studio Sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l\u2019Automazione (Italy).<\/p>\n

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Groups of autonomous underwater vehicles are required to operate in areas where the visibility is low, obstacles are not known in advance, and a single vehicle would have very limited capabilities. The techniques enabling cooperative behaviour of the MORPH ensemble will pave the way for the development of advanced multi-vehicle systems capable of executing data acquisition and habitat mapping tasks in complex 3D environments (such as canyons and rugged cliff areas) in the presence of reduced visibility and natural unforeseen obstacles.<\/p>\n

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The hallmark of the MORPH project will be the demonstration, in 2015, of a system of multiple vehicles with complementary capabilities that will be able to perform complex missions underwater, under stringent operational conditions. This will be done by bringing together a number of simple and relatively cheap vehicles to seamlessly cooperate and behave as an ensemble: the \u201cMORPH Supra Vehicle\u201d. Such a system is expected to be launched in the market in 10-years time, offering an innovative solution to a large number of problems in a vast number of field applications: harbour protection, monitoring of industrial infrastructures (offshore wind power installations, pipelines…), sea mine detection, environmental monitoring, exploration of marine resources, archaeological surveys, to name a few.<\/p>\n

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We want to give special thanks to Ports de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Club N\u00e0utic de Sant Feliu de Gu\u00edxols to let us use their facilities for the trials.<\/p>\n

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El projecte europeu del 7\u00e8 Programa Marc MORPH: el proper pas cap al futur de la rob\u00f2tica subaqu\u00e0tica<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Del 7 a l\u201911 d\u2019Abril de 2014 vehicles submarins aut\u00f2noms de superf\u00edcie i submarins<\/strong> de diferents institucions europees es provaran conjuntament a la Costa Brava. Els experiments els duran a terme un total de 26 cient\u00edfics d\u2019Alemanya, Portugal, It\u00e0lia, Fran\u00e7a i Espanya. L\u2019objectiu d\u2019aquest treball de camp \u00e9s demostrar que aquests vehicles poden operar coordinadament com a un tot. En concret, la missi\u00f3 que han de fer al mar \u00e9s comunicar-se de manera aut\u00f2noma mentre fan una traject\u00f2ria i aconseguir esquivar els obstacles que trobin sota l\u2019aigua. Aquest \u00e9s el primer pas per avan\u00e7ar cap a missions m\u00e9s complexes.<\/p>\n

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MORPH respon al t\u00edtol en angl\u00e8s Marine Robotic System of Self-Organising, Logically Linked Physical Nodes i \u00e9s un projecte a 4 anys finan\u00e7at per la Comissi\u00f3 Europea. Va comen\u00e7ar l\u2019any 2012 I t\u00e9 un pressupost total de 8,4 Milions d\u2019Euros.<\/p>\n

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Les institucions que participen al projecte s\u00f3n: Atlas Elektronik (Alemanya) Ifremer (Fran\u00e7a), Jacobs University Bremen (Alemanya), Ilmenau University of Technology (Alemanya), Computer Vision and Robotics research Institute at University of Girona (Espanya), IMAR – Institute of Marine Research (Portugal), CMRE – NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (It\u00e0lia), Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST Portugal), CNR – Istituto di Studio Sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l\u2019Automazione (It\u00e0lia).<\/p>\n

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L\u2019objectiu dels experiments que es faran a la Costa Brava \u00e9s comprovar que els diferents vehicles s\u00f3n capa\u00e7os de navegar conjuntament en formaci\u00f3 de forma aut\u00f2noma eludint obstacles. L\u2019aplicaci\u00f3 d\u2019aquestes t\u00e8cniques es particularment rellevant quan els vehicles han d\u2019actuar en \u00e0rees de poca visibilitat, on hi pugui haver obstacles o en casos en qu\u00e8 les seves capacitats poden estar limitats. La idea de MORPH \u00e9s que els vehicles actu\u00efn com un de sol a l\u2019aigua i que es donin suport en llocs complexes de navegar com podria ser, per exemple, una zona submergida un precipici.<\/p>\n

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Demostrar aquest sistema per a la realitzaci\u00f3 de missions senzilles \u00e9s l\u2019objectiu de MORPH, els vehicles tenen capacitats heterog\u00e8nies i guanyen valor si cooperen. Per exemple, amb un sistema com aquest, es podrien fer servir vehicles m\u00e9s simples, m\u00e9s econ\u00f2mics i m\u00e9s operatius que els que s\u2019estan fent servir actualment. Aquest sistema s\u2019espera que pugui arribar al mercat en un horitz\u00f3 temporal de 10 anys, oferint una soluci\u00f3 innovadora per a molts camps d\u2019aplicaci\u00f3, per exemple: protecci\u00f3 de ports, monitoritzaci\u00f3 d\u2019estructures subaqu\u00e0tiques, detecci\u00f3 de mines, monitoritzaci\u00f3 mediambiental, explicaci\u00f3 dels recursos submarins o arqueologia, per exemple.<\/p>\n

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Volem donar les gr\u00e0cies de forma especial a Ports de la Generalitat de Catalunya i al Club N\u00e0utic de Sant Feliu de Gu\u00edxols per a deixar-nos fer servir les seves instal\u00b7lacions per a la realitzaci\u00f3 dels experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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