Winter School on Advanced Autonomous Marine Operations
INESC TEC is strongly committed to becoming a centre of excellence in maritime technology and, in particular, deep sea technology. It is strategically located, with fast access to deep sea, it has been steadily building up its skills, capabilities and resources, and is presently in the process of implementing an open research infrastructure (TEC4SEA), thus preparing itself to become capable of providing services and open access to the European academic and industrial communities and, thus, become a recognised European maritime research asset. The STRONGMAR project aims at creating solid and productive links in the global field of marine science and technology between INESC TEC and established leading research European institutions, capable of enhancing the scientific and technological capacity of INESC TEC and linked institutions (as well as the capacity of partnering institutions involved in the twinning action), helping in raising its staff’s research profile and its recognition as a European maritime research centre of excellence. These objectives will be fulfilled through a set of measures: summer schools, winter schools, short-term scientific meetings, long-term staff visits, networking meetings, workshops, conferences, technology transfer workshops with stakeholders, and other dissemination activities. Therefore, the STRONGMAR project places INESC TEC as the pivot of a network of excellence, involving four European partners which are international leaders in deep sea technology. The STRONGMAR project is coordinated by INESC TEC (Portugal), and the consortium comprises CINTAL (Portugal), the Heriot-Watt University (Scotland, United Kingdom), the NATO Science & Technology Organization (Belgium), the Universitat de Girona (Spain) and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, United Kingdom). The training strategy is based on sessions touching multidisciplinary aspects, followed by sessions focused on specific fields of expertise, allowing researchers to improve their knowledge and preparing them for the research and implementation challenges in the sea harsh environment. The Winter School on Advanced Autonomous Marine Operations was organised by our partners from the Herriot-Watt University. It was held from the 6th to the 8th of February 2018, and comprised the following lectures and hands-on: Lectures: • Deep Learning for Robotics -- Sen Wang, HWU • Deep Learning for Robot Vision -- Ruihao Li, University of Essex • Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Modelling -- Yishu Miao, University of Oxford and DeepMind • Recurrent Neural Models for Robotic Perception -- Ronald Clark, Imperial College London • Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Application in Robotics -- Linhai Xie, University of Oxford • Adaptive Control for Marine Robots using Deep Reinforcement Learning -- Ignacio Carlucho, CIFICEN Hands-on: • Deep Learning hands-on: design and training of deep neural networks for pose estimation of a robot by using GPU servers. The detailed programme is available on the website. The 14 school participants were all students and researchers from the Centre for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CRAS), INESC TEC. More information at www.strongmar.eu
Countries
Portugal, United Kingdom