Our sonar solution - aims at conceiving, designing, and engineering an intelligent, manageable, distributed and reconfigurable underwater acoustic array that could drastically improve the efficacy of the methodologies used to perform geophysical and geotechnical acoustic surveys at sea.

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Recent research have demonstrated that there is potential for groups of robots collaborating for ocean exploration and exploitation. Traditionally, these tasks are performed by experts from a surface vessel.  The idea driving this proposal is that of developing advanced cooperative and networked control / navigation systems to enable control of many marine robots (both on the surface and submerged) to interact by sharing information as a coordinated team.

The project brings together a group of research institutions, surveying companies and SMEs with a proven track record in autonomous adaptive and robust systems, communications, networked cooperative control and navigation, and marine robot design and fabrication.