{"id":174,"date":"2015-03-26T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2015-03-26T17:05:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:05:18","slug":"maritime-autonomy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2015\/03\/26\/maritime-autonomy-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime Autonomy update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177\" style=\"width: 131px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/03\/Maritime-Robotics-Lab.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/03\/Maritime-Robotics-Lab-131x300.png\" alt=\"3m Autonomous tanker model in action\" width=\"131\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/03\/Maritime-Robotics-Lab-131x300.png 131w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/03\/Maritime-Robotics-Lab.png 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3m Autonomous tanker model in action<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFSI members presented at the launch of the University Strategic Research Group (USRG) in Autonomous Systems on Friday 20th March. The USRG undertakes work in autonomous systems, sensing, computing, communications and platforms in order to provide world class, cost effective capabilities for scientists and other users. The developed technologies will be employed by society to develop and maintain a low carbon economy, conduct earth science research and other applications from sub-sea, surface, land, air and space.<br \/>\nPresentations were given by Dr Sally Bennett in \u2018Autonomous Maritime Platforms \u2013 surface and submerged\u2019 discussing the autonomous platforms developed here in Southampton and jointly with the NOC, Dr Gabriel Weymouth in \u2018Maritime robotics \u2013 getting up close\u2019 discussing the development of persistent energy sources and the potential of soft materials in the future development maritime robotic systems, Ms Cath Holyhead in \u2018Autonomous marine sensors for energy scavenging from fixed moorings&#8217; discussing her PhD work, and Dr Jon Downes in \u2018Smart Autonomous Ships for safer seas&#8217; discussing the potential uses of autonomy in ships, the potential for autonomous systems for inspection of ship structures, and highlighting the work of the maritime robotics laboratory (www.southampton.ac.uk\/maritime-robotics-lab).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FSI members presented at the launch of the University Strategic Research Group (USRG) in Autonomous Systems on Friday 20th March. The USRG undertakes work in autonomous systems, sensing, computing, communications and platforms in order to provide world class, cost effective capabilities for scientists and other users. The developed technologies will be employed by society to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2015\/03\/26\/maritime-autonomy-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maritime Autonomy update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}