Project database

The page provides a list of national and international projects where FER participates or has participated as a project coordinator or partner.


Projects

   

Project

Acronym:
EUROS 
Name:
Expanded underwater robotics ready for oil spills 
Project status:
From: 2017-01-01 To: 2018-12-31 (Completed)
Contract number:
- 
Action line:
- 
Type (Programme):
Ostali 
Instrument:
Ostalo 
Project cost:
798.105,99 EUR
Project funding:
798.105,99 EUR

Project coordinator

Organisation Name:
Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain 
Organisation adress:
- 
Organisation country:
Spain 
Contact person name:
Javier Gilabert 
Contact person email:
 

Croatian partner

Organisation name:
Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Organisation address:
Unska 3 
Contact person name:
prof. dr. sc. Zoran Vukić
Contact person tel:
6129-840 
Contact person fax:
- 
Contact person e-mail:
Email 

Partners

Organisation name Country
University of Porto   Portugal 
University of Cyprus   Cyprus 
University of Girona   Spain 
Norwegian University of science and technology   Norway 
Tallin University of technoogy   Estonia 
The Scotish association for marine science   United Kingdom 
University of Balearic islands   Spain 
Irish coast guard   Ireland 
Spanish society for salvage and security   Spain 

Short description of project

The general aims of this project are to: 1) Expand the already existing URready4OS fleet (from 5 to 12 assets), 2) Provide training to new vehicles teams joining the fleet, 3) Improve the current URready4OS system and 4) Transfer the know-how to Maritime Safety Agencies.   e-URready4OS project will enable larger number of Maritime Safety Agencies from more European countries to use the fleet of unmanned autonomous vehicles (underwater, surface and aerial) and track the oil spills movements in European Seas, and react swiftly to such events. Distributed intelligence of this robotic system will enable building the reliable picture of the oil spill (on the surface and bellow the surface) and consequently establish the dynamic model for better tracking and predicting the movements of the oil spill. This robotic system will be able to self-organize in order to improve tracking and sending realiable measured data about the oil spill to the command centre(s). The system configuration allows the flexibility and expandability to scale up according to the spill magnitude. The challenge of this project is to provide a larger number of trained teams as to be better prepared to deal with an emergency. Underwater robotics is widely used in the military and scientific domains, but not yet by Maritime Safety Agencies (MSAs). Our proposed strategy to accelerate the use of robotics against oil spills is twofold. On one hand, we will expand the number of different countries trained teams with available vehicles from universities and research centres to increase the capabilities to handle an emergency elsewhere in European Seas. Secondly, we will transfer the know-how of these institutions to MSAs performing training exercises on board of their rescue vessels and giving courses to their technical personnel in charge of this technology in a near future.  

Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner

The general aims of this project are to: 1) Expand the already existing URready4OS fleet (from 5 to 12 assets), 2) Provide training to new vehicles teams joining the fleet, 3) Improve the current URready4OS system and 4) Transfer the know-how to Maritime Safety Agencies.   e-URready4OS project will enable larger number of Maritime Safety Agencies from more European countries to use the fleet of unmanned autonomous vehicles (underwater, surface and aerial) and track the oil spills movements in European Seas, and react swiftly to such events. Distributed intelligence of this robotic system will enable building the reliable picture of the oil spill (on the surface and bellow the surface) and consequently establish the dynamic model for better tracking and predicting the movements of the oil spill. This robotic system will be able to self-organize in order to improve tracking and sending realiable measured data about the oil spill to the command centre(s). The system configuration allows the flexibility and expandability to scale up according to the spill magnitude. The challenge of this project is to provide a larger number of trained teams as to be better prepared to deal with an emergency. Underwater robotics is widely used in the military and scientific domains, but not yet by Maritime Safety Agencies (MSAs). Our proposed strategy to accelerate the use of robotics against oil spills is twofold. On one hand, we will expand the number of different countries trained teams with available vehicles from universities and research centres to increase the capabilities to handle an emergency elsewhere in European Seas. Secondly, we will transfer the know-how of these institutions to MSAs performing training exercises on board of their rescue vessels and giving courses to their technical personnel in charge of this technology in a near future.