Project: cooperAtion unDerwater foR effIcient operATions vehICles

Acronym	ADRIATIC (Reference Number: MarTERA-2020_113)
Duration	01/06/2021 - 31/05/2024
Project Topic	The current capabilities of Unmanned Underwater and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (UUVs and USVs, respectively) have leveraged the implementation of increasingly complex missions at sea. Thus, nowadays there is a huge interest in the development of advanced techniques for cooperative and coordinated operation by multiple autonomous vehicles, since such approach promises a performance, robustness, flexibility, and adaptability that is unachievable with a single vehicle. Despite the growing interest in the field, most of the ongoing research work is purely theoretical or, if experimental, focused on partial aspects of the whole mission loop and tightly coupled to the available vehicles and architectures in these developments. ADRIATIC aims at taking this situation to the next level by developing a vendor-neutral software framework for mission planning and simulation of cooperative autonomous marine vehicles. This solution will integrate the whole mission loop (Autonomous Navigation; Environment Recognition and Sensing; Water/Underwater Communications) while expanding the functionalities of existing open-source libraries and APIs focused on specific aspects of UUV/USV operation, such as vessel dynamics, guidance, navigation (UUV Simulator, UWSim) or underwater image processing (UNDROIP). A simulation environment will be used to develop and verify the task planning navigation and the control of the system. Simulation will provide a flexible environment test and demonstrate different scenarios and vehicles. This approach will remove the restrictions of having limited access to hardware and will increase software reusability, lowering the existing entrance barrier to UUV/USV operation. ADRIATIC combines the efforts of four companies and one university from three European countries, which common vision is to expand the use of underwater vehicles to facilitate the conception, planning and execution of maritime and offshore operations and missions. This will reduce operational costs, increase the safety of tasks and of involved individuals, and expand the offshore sector
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Network	MarTERA
Call	MarTERA Call 2020

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Beia Consult International	Coordinator	Romania
2	Elkon Elektrik San. Tic. A.S	Partner	Türkiye
3	OBSS Teknoloji A.S.	Partner	Türkiye
4	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Partner	Norway
5	USEA OCEAN DATA	Partner	Norway