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with 6 AUV, 1 USV, 1 AUV and 2 aux- ways a great technological and human iliary vessels has given satisfactory re- challenge. This project aims to make

About the Author sults. Exchange of information between accessible to oil spill responders a de-

NEPTUS and the bridge started to be centralized, ? exible, expandable, easy Dr. Javier Gilabert is Professor at the

Department of Chemical & Environ- explored during this exercise. to transport, low cost and open system. mental Engineering - Technical Univer-

Next exercise is planned for 2018 on Our project is based on the idea that, the board of the Celtic Voyager vessel orga- more trained agents involved, the more sity of Cartagena (UPCT) – Spain and

PI of the Underwater Robotics Ready nized by The Irish Coast Guards. ef? ciently and available and useful and for Oil Spill project.

In order to disseminate and transfer cheap the system will be.

knowledge gained during this proj- ect, a short course is designed on oil spill tracking with autonomous agents (AUVs, UAVs, USVs) and their inte- gration with other existing technolo- gies is designed. A ? rst version of this course was given to Civil Protection technical staff in Cyprus. The mate- rial developed for the courses, which will be improved during later events, is availability through the project website.

This course will allow the ? nal users to understand how, when and where to de- ploy a ? eet of AUVs, the operational ca- pabilities and limitations. Together with the project white paper, it will include guidelines, protocols and routines both for communications between vehicles and to ground/ship station as well as the procedures and requirements to join the ? eet for any third party vehicles avail- able. The document produced is focused on practical issues rather than theoreti- cal, so it can be used for ? nal users to decide when and how they should use these technologies, how to download and install the software, how to prepare new vehicles to join the ? eet, which are the communications requirements both aerial and underwater, communications protocols to use, etc.

The integration of new teams is al-

Presented Live @ Oi

Javier Gilabert will present his Expand- ed Underwater Robotics Ready for Oil

Spill paper at Oceanology International 2018 on 13th March at London’s Ex-

Cel, as part of the Unmanned Vehicles & Vessels Technical Track - Applications for Unmanned Vehicles. Attendance to both the conference and exhibition is free. Register at http://www.ocean- ologyinternational.com/register www.marinetechnologynews.com

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