The submarine robotics group of the UJI obtains an award for its work in automatic marine control



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## The submarine robotics group of the UJI obtains an award for its work in automatic marine control

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The submarine robotics group of the UJI, IRS Lab ([www.irs.uji.es](http://www.irs.uji.es)), from the Department of Engineering and Computer Science, has received the award for best work in Automatic Marine Control of the Spanish Committee of Automatic Control, in a special event for its 50 anniversary, for the most recent results in submarine intervention with semi-autonomous robots (equipped with embedded computers), for the design of a tool to support archaeological work on the seabed .

The research team is working on the [MERBOTS](http://www.irs.uji.es/merbots/) project, which studies aspects for the development of a novel submarine intervention robot that can assist archaeologists in their underwater studies. The works are being carried out in a coordinated way by the UJI together with the Research Centre of Submarine Robotics of the University of Girona and the Group of Submarine Robotics of the University of the Balearic Islands, which are responsible for the manipulation system, the mobile vehicle, and the vision system, respectively.

MERBOTS aims to advance the development of underwater intervention systems. For this purpose, an extensive use of multi-robot cooperation and multimodal perception systems is planned. Today, when the mission area is too deep and risky to be carried out by divers, the alternative is the use of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). This is a difficult and costly solution that requires a sophisticated support infrastructure and specialized staff. Consequently, the use of robotic technology is usually limited to strategic operations or high added value such as rescue, offshore industry or security and defense.

The proposal is a system and methodology that allow safer, less costly and operationally simpler intervention tasks. New areas of application such as deep sea archeology can be achieved, so that important results can be achieved not only from an economic but also a scientific, social or cultural point of view.

Video of the cooperative intervention with two robots carried out in the month of March: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xECxNb0-dQ>

Related video:**[Trident](https://youtu.be/sWSlYakKRzA)**

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