Projects

Projects

The AUR-lab works in collaboration with other research institutions. The following list includes those projects where the AUR-lab is or has been enrolled in:

Projects-list

Ongoing projects

  • OceanLab. AUR-Lab is node 1 in OceanLab that are full scale laboratories in Trondheimsfjorden and Mid-Norway. The aim is to meet requirements for education, research and innovation in the marine and maritime sectors. OceanLab is supported by the Norwegian Research Council.

  • Bugwright2 is a collaborative project co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 871260. The objective of BUGWRIGHT2 is to bridge the gap between the current and desired capabilities of ship inspection and service robots by developing and demonstrating an adaptable autonomous robotic solution for servicing ship outer hulls.

  • Vista CAROS. Building upon experience gained at NTNU AMOS, the NTNU VISTA Centre for Autonomous Robotic Operations Subsea (CAROS) aim to become a world-leading research centre on autonomous underwater robotic operations with focus on resident and collaborating autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that are supported by subsea docking systems for energy charging and communication.

  • MoniTARE is a 4-year, NOK 7.2 million project that aims to perform autonomous underwater monitoring of kelp-farm biomass, growth, health and biofouling using optical sensors. The project started in the summer of 2021.

  • Undina Martera. Researching underwater robotics with multi-modal communication and network-aided positioning system.

  • Subzerospace

  • Deep Impact (UiT) is exploring the potential effects of artificial light on organisms that remain active in one of the last undisturbed and pristine dark habitats on the planet - the Arctic polar night. 

  • SFI Harvest shall develop knowledge and technology for sustainable harvest of lowtrophic marine resources, and by this contribute to a sustainable and affordable inrease in Norwegian biomarine industry. 

  • LiaCI. Companies across oil & gas, maritime and fish farming value chains are seeking quicker, more accessible, and costeffective ways to ensure technical safety and performance of projects and operations. Increasingly more of those companies are using digital technologies to virtually bring inspectors and surveyors to sites in order to witness and verify the quality and integrity of equipment and assets to company specifications or industry standards. The overall goal of LIACi is to develop an adaptive decision support system that improves efficiency of video-based inspections with automatic report generation and extended use of inspection data for decision support. Posicom will use the leading competence of SINTEF and NTNU to extend its video inspection system with these features; a) AI supported tagging of objects and events, and b) Contextualization of video with additional information. This will give Posicom a unique advantage in serving the maritime and oil & gas market segments represented by DNVGL, VUVI, Island Offshore and Kongsberg Ferrotech.

  • AUV Access: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are steadily becoming the tool of excellence in subsea survey and inspection tasks. Powered by batteries with limited capacity, AUVs are typically operated from conventional support vessels which represent the highest contributor to costs, accidents, and CO2 emissions. More recently, seabed resident AUVs are becoming commercially available, which represent a tremendous market potential to lower the costs and HSE risks compared to conventional ROVs. Seabed resident AUVs still need a support vessel in the deployment phase, in case of need of maintenance, or if they need to be relocated to a site beyond their own operational range. Conventional AUV operations using support vessels and classic Launch and Recovery Systems (LARS) have difficulties operating in sea states 4 and above, a quite common condition in the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea. uSEA has developed a concept of fully unmanned operation that will allow operation above sea state 4. The primary objective of the ACCESS-AUV project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a new type of active towed docking station with power and data transfer capabilities that will enable the operation of AUVs from unmanned vessels in extended weather and sea state conditions. The project outcomes will be used for the detailing, construction and safe operation of such system in industrial applications. Industries that utilize critical marine and underwater infrastructure such as oil and gas, offshore wind, aquaculture, subsea telecommunication and power cables will benefit
    from this innovation during their project development phases, when they undertake surveys of the seabed, and throughout their operational lives, when they need periodic and/or emergency inspection of that infrastructure. This innovation will also help aquaculture, industrial fishing, environmental monitoring and marine research get access to affordable and clean data of the underwater environment.

  • ILIAD: ILIAD builds on the assets resulting from two decades of investments in policies and infrastructures for the blue economy and aims at establishing an interoperable, data-intensive, and cost-effective Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO). It capitalizes on the explosion of new data provided by many different earth sources, advanced computing infrastructures (cloud computing, HPC, Internet of Things, Big Data, social networking, and more) in an inclusive,
    virtual/augmented, and engaging fashion to address all Earth Data challenges. It will contribute towards a sustainable ocean economy as defined by the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ocean, a hub for global, multistakeholder co-operation. The ILIAD DTO will fuse a large volume of diverse data, in a semantically rich and data agnostic approach to enable
    simultaneous communication with real world systems and models. Ontologies and a standard style-layered descriptor will facilitate semantic information and intuitive discovery of underlying information and knowledge to provide a seamless experience. The combination of geovisualisation, immersive visualization and virtual or augmented reality allows users to explore, synthesize, present, and analyze the underlying geospatial data in an interactive manner.
    The enabling technology of the ILIAD DTO will contribute to the implementation of the EU?s Green Deal and Digital Strategy and to the achievement of the UN Ocean Decade's outcomes and Sustainable Development Goals. To realize its potential, ILIAD DTO will follow the System of Systems approach, integrating all existing EU Earth Observing and Modelling Digital Infrastructures and Facilities To promote additional applications through ILIAD DTO, the partners will create the ILIAD Marketplace. Like an app store, providers will use the ILIAD Marketplace to distribute apps, plug-ins, interfaces, raw data, citizen science data, synthesized information, and value-adding services derived from the ILIAD DTO.

  • Ailaron. (Autonomous Imaging and Learning AiRObot identifying plaNkton taxa in-situ) is an inter-disciplinary integrated effort for characterizing targeted in-situ plankton. Our AUV (LAUV-Roald) uses a camera to image microorganisms in the photic zone, process imagery in-situ, categorize and classify based on Machine Learning, generate a probability density map and uses an AI-based controller to return to the most highly correlated ’hot-spots’ with respect to species of interest over the survey volume.

Concluded projects

  • Smartfish2020. 

  • EU Marine Robotics. The main objective of the EUMR project is to open up key national and regional marine robotics research infrastructures (RIs) to all European researchers, from both academia and industry, ensuring their optimal use and joint development to establish a world-­class marine robotics integrated infrastructure.