Winter School on Underwater marine environment perception
INESC TEC is strongly committed to become 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 Summer School on Underwater marine environment perception was held at the Underwater Centre, Fort William (Scotland, United Kingdom) from the 25th to the 29th of June 2018. It was organised by our partners from Heriot-Watt University and focused on deep learning for robotics. The Summer school comprised: • Lectures on Sensor Networks, Mission Planning and Vision; • Hands-on experiments/trials on ROV Training, Vision, Sensor Networks, Mission Planning; • Simulations on ROV Training. The detailed programme is available on the website. The school participants were all students and researchers from the Centre for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CRAS), INESC TEC. More information at www.strongmar.eu
Keywords
summer school, training, learning, twinning, technology transfer, R&D, cooperation, underwater technology, robotics, autonomous vehicles, ASV, autonomous surface vehicles, AUV, autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater archaeology, visual perception, acoustic perception, neural networks, acoustics, underwater acoustics, sensing, sensors, acoustic sensors, underwater sensing, multi-target tracking, algorithms, statistics, optical sensing, optical fibres, optical fibre sensing, measurement, data processing, research, development, testing
Countries
Portugal, United Kingdom