Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologias Subaquáticas

🆕🌊Marine Robotics Summer School is back! From 10 to 21 July, 2023, in Faial, the Azores, 24 students from MIT and Portuguese universities will have the opportunity to learn about marine robotics and oceanography, especially in ocean observation, archaeology, and mapping of ecosystems.
Applications are open until April 24. Don't miss it!

👉How to apply: https://www.mitportugal.org/activity/2023-marine-robotics-summer-school/

de Sistemas e Tecnologias Subaquáticas
Universidade dos Açores
Okeanos - Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar
Escola do Mar dos Açores

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🚨4th INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR AIR CENTRE PROGRAMME🚨

Three PhD Scholarships have opened at LSTS (Bolsas de Investigação para Doutoramento – BD).

These are part of a recently opened international call to grant 7 (seven) PhD Scholarships, financed by the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Collaboration Protocol signed between FCT and the AIR Centre.

For more information about the three calls opened at LSTS go to:
-Models of computation for systems of teamed maritime vehicles: https://www.aircentre.org/Scholarship/list/models-of-computation-for-systems-of-teamed-maritime-vehicles/

- Team-based planning and ex*****on control for multi-domain autonomous vehicles: https://www.aircentre.org/Scholarship/list/team-based-planning-and-ex*****on-control-for-multi-domain-autonomous-vehicles/

- Optimal trajectory planning and ex*****on control for long-range Autonomous Surface Vehicles : https://www.aircentre.org/Scholarship/list/optimal-trajectory-planning-and-ex*****on-control-for-long-range-autonomous-surface-vehicles/

For details about the programme visit: https://www.aircentre.org/Scholarship/

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U.Porto marca presença na Conferência dos Oceanos das Nações Unidas Docentes, investigadores e técnicos do ecossistema da Universidade marcaram presença no evento como representantes da U.Porto.

🌊The 2022 Marine Robotics Summer School starts today in the Azores.

Its goal is to provide a comprehensive overview of Marine Robotics with a special focus on applications in ocean observation, underwater archeology, and ecosystems mapping.
This summer school has the participation of João Sousa, Renato Mendes, Luís Venâncio and João Costa from LSTS and Doug Hart, Pierre Lermusiaux and John Leonard from MIT.

More information at: https://www.mitportugal.org/activity/2022-marine-robotics-summer-school/

This summer school is an initiative jointly organized by the MIT Portugal Program (MPP),LSTS (FEUP) and the Reitoria da Universidade dos Açores with the participation of AIR Centre; CoLab +ATLANTIC; Gaspar Frutuoso Foundation; Escola do Mar dos Açores ; and Okeanos - Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar . The Summer course in under the High Patronage of the Regional Government of Azores.

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Final demonstration of the RaMP Project

Last June 22nd, the workshop and final demonstration of the RaMP project took place.
The demonstration of the RAMP System with autonomous vehicles was held at Praia da Barra in the morning.

During the afternoon, the workshop took place in the Amphitheater of the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro with the following sessions:
- Presentation of the RaMP System (LSTS - FEUP)
- Implementation of Numerical Model for RaMP System (NMEC-UA)
- Impact of robotics on the future of Combating Pollution at Sea (DGAM)
- Guest Lecture - Prof. Dr. Javier Gilabert (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena)

The RaMP - Rapid-response to Marine Pollution project proposes the development and empowerment of low-cost autonomous air, surface and submarine vehicles for operations of prevention, monitoring, surveillance and response to marine pollution events. In conjunction with current numerical modelling tools, it aims to minimize the inherent costs to operations, increase their speed and facilitate the identification of polluting sources. Through the design and implementation of simple rapid sampling processes, this project aims to increase national capacity for monitoring and response to marine pollution while minimizing risks and safeguarding ecosystems, material assets and human lives.

More information about the project at ramp.lsts.pt.

⚠️Seminar “A Synergetic Approach to Increase Mobility Awareness in Legged Robots”

Don´t miss the seminar on the 1st of July, by Prof. Dr. Michele Focchi from Università di Trento. The seminar is open to all FEUP community and will be taking place in room i205, at 10:30.

ABSTRACT
Legged robots are mainly designed to traverse unstructured environments where wheeled robots have limited mobility. Their applications range from nuclear decommissioning to mining, search and rescue, inspection and surveillance. In addition, they can be applied to flank human workers (or collaborate with them) in order to reduce labor accidents. The next generation of legged robots are envisioned to operate either autonomously or semi-autonomously (through tele-operation) over uneven terrains.
This requires the capability to comply with disturbances, to wisely exploit information from the visual feedback, and the ability to manipulate objects or interact with the environment. Therefore, the main ingredients for legged locomotion are planning, control, perception and state estimation. In this talk I will present research results in these fields obtained in more than ten years of experience in legged locomotion. Moreover, I will illustrate my future research vision, that encompasses two research axes: 1) explore novel applications for legged robots. 2) enhance the motion capability of legged robots through the use of numerical optimization in planning trajectories.
Indeed, optimization-based planning strategies enable to generalize motions to address different terrains and complex motions. With respect to more myopic heuristic approaches (that lack awareness of the future) they give the possibility to reach the robot performance limits and to guarantee physical feasibility of the planned trajectories, because they take into account the hardware constraints that are typical of legged robots (kinematic and actuation limits) and the interaction with the environment.