{"id":913,"date":"2020-04-30T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:43:14","slug":"awarding-times-for-ocean-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2020\/04\/30\/awarding-times-for-ocean-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Awarding times for ocean exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) towing two Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) out to shore form the port of Kalamata, Greece <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dr Blair Thornton, Associate Professor of Marine Autonomy in the\nFSI group and Director of the Centre of Excellence for In situ and Remote\nIntelligent Sensing (IRIS) has recently been awarded the 2020 Waterway Technology Award in\nJapan as part of Team KUROSHIO, Japan\u2019s entry to the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery\nX-Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nmore information visit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.jamstec.go.jp\/team-kuroshio\/en\/team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/ieeeoes.org\/oes-beacon\/september-2019-oes-beacon\/team-kuroshios-story-runner-up-of-the-shell-ocean-discovery-xprize\/<\/a>\n\n\n\n\n\n`\ufffd\ufffd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team\nKUROSHIO recently placed 2nd in the 2019 Shell Ocean Discovery X-Prize,\nreceiving a $1.1M runner up cheque at the award ceremony held in June 2019 in\nMonaco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shell Ocean\nDiscovery X-Prize was an international robotics competition\nthat saw 27 teams from around the world to compete for a total prize\nof $7M.\nThe competition was held in\nKalamata, Greece in December 2018, and required\nteams to survey a 500km2 region of seafloor located 15 nautical\nmiles from shore at a depth of 4000m in the Mediterranean sea. At 4000m depth, maps\ngenerated from ships equipped with state of the art acoustic mapping devices\nwould only achieve a resolution of ~40m, but teams here were required to\ngenerate maps with better than 5m resolution, meaning that they would need to\ndeploy submersible robots the achieve this feat. Teams had\n48hours to complete this ambitious challenge, where all operations from the\nmoment the robotic platforms entered the water at the port of Kalamata until\ntheir eventual return to the port had to be carried with not human\nintervention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team\nKUROSHIO\u2019s entry consisted of two, 4000m depth rated Autonomous Underwater\nVehicles (AUVs) and an Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV). The team was able to\nsuccessfully transit from the port to the survey site and deploy their systems\nto survey over 100km2 of the seafloor in the available time. Once the systems\nfound their way back to shore, the team had a further 48 hours to process the\ndata collected by the submersibles, to determine their location in GPS denied\nunderwater environment, and generate 5m resolution maps of the seafloor in the\nsurveyed region. Team KUROSHIO placed second to GEBCO Alumni, an international\nteam consisting of 30+ members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\naddition to receiving the $1.1M runner up prize for their achievement in the\ncompetition, the members of Team KUROSHIO were invited by Prime Minister Shinzo\nAbe to be congratulated by him directly, and receive the 2020 Waterway\nTechnology Award for this outstanding achievement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\nyou want to try your hand at Maritime Robotics, you can find current\nopportunities to do a PhD in the subject here<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/hydro.soton.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/297\/2020\/01\/lanchaster-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and\nhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/iris\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or\nif you just want to see some videos of related activities, visit these\nlinks <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IRIS\ncentre – https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pj0KvSwsnCE&feature=emb_logo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adaptive\nRobotics – https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQVnabh45u4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\nyou are an undergraduate and want to get involved, you can take SESS6072\nMaritime Robotics of contact any member of staff about projects and internships\nin Maritime Robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Blair Thornton, Associate Professor of Marine Autonomy in the FSI group and Director of the Centre of Excellence for In situ and Remote Intelligent Sensing (IRIS) has recently been awarded the 2020 Waterway Technology Award in Japan as part of Team KUROSHIO, Japan\u2019s entry to the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery X-Prize. For more information visit … Continue reading Awarding times for ocean exploration<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[31,32,11],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-maritimerobotics","tag-oceanexploration","tag-maritime-engineering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}