Detalles sesiones plenarias

Sesión plenaria I: "Developing robotic systems for deep underwater archaeology"

 

Abstract: Since 2013, the Cosaire Concept Project aims at developing new tools for deep underwater archaeology (from 50m to 2000m). This project is leaded by the DRASSM (Département des Recherches Archéologiques Subaquatiques et Sous-Marines), the French Department (Ministry of Culture) in charge of underwater archaeology. The LIRMM (CNRS-University of Montpellier) coordinates the robotics part of this project, where several laboratories (P’Prime, Stanford Robotics, Onera) and SME (Techno Concept…) have proposed new robotic tools under the supervision of the archaeologists. Most of the tests are conducted at 90m on the Lune shipwreck, a warship in the navy of Louis XIV of France, which sank in 1664, a few nautical miles away from Toulon (France). Some other experiments have been carried out on deeper antic shipwrecks (500m) and on a recent (year 1916) battleship located 1025 meters deep. This talk presents some of these experiments, involving computer vision, control, remote manipulation, and robotic design (ANR Seahand Project).

 

Vincent Creuze (LIRMM, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, CNRS / University of Montpellier) and Michel L'Hour (DRASSM, Département des Recherches Archéologiques Subaquatiques et Sous-Marines, French Ministry of Culture).

 

 

 

 

Abstract: The talk will focus on the current research activities of ISME, an Italian interuniversity center that groups together 8 entities involved in European H2020 projects as well as technology transfers. Among the others, projects on multiple underwater vehicles for geophysical and geotechnical acoustic surveys and underwater intervention will be presented.

 

Gianluca Antonelli is a Professor at the "University of Cassino and Southern Lazio". His research interests include marine and industrial robotics, multi-agent systems, identification. He has published 39 international journal papers and more than 110 conference papers, he is author of the book "Underwater Robots" (Springer-Verlag, 2003, 2006, 2014) and co-authored the chapter "Underwater Robotics" for the Springer Handbook of Robotics, (Springer-Verlag, 2008, 2016). He has been involved in various roles in research projects funded under FP7 and H2020 schemes: Co3AUVs, ECHORD, ARCAS, EUROC, AEROARMS, DexROV, WiMUST and ROBUST. He served both as independent expert and reviewer for the European FP/H2020 calls several times since 2006. He is member elected of the "IEEE Robotics & Automation Society" Administrative Committee, he is coordinator elected of the EuRobotics Topic Group in Marine Robotics, he has been secretary of the IEEE-Italy section, he has been chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Italian Chapter, he has been Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee in Marine Robotics. He served in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, he has been Editor for the RAS Conference Editorial Board. He is chief editor of the open access journal "Frontiers in Robotics & AI" specialty "Robotic Control Systems".