The BugWright2 project

Autonomous Robotic Inspection and Maintenance on Ship Hulls

Videos

Crawler integration demo: CNRS working on localisation and mapping on a RBP crawler.

Visualisation integration demo: RWTH working on a VR/AR-supported hardware and software framework that enables efficient and intuitive planning and monitoring of inspection and cleaning tasks in a multi-robot scenario.

Pioneer integration demo: Blueye test an acoustic position system.

Crawler demo: CNRS working on Ultrasonic Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping.

Crawler demo: CNRS working on autonomous sweeping of a steel wall.

Crawler demo: CNRS working on localisation and mapping.

Visualisation integration demo: VR application developed at RWTH and the drone located at UNI-KLU.

Drone demo: illustration of autonomous inspection-oriented capabilities of the UIB drone.

Drone demo: performance of the UIB 3D laser-based odometer

Drone demo: Motion estimation results from the VIO solution developed at the University of Klagenfurt (UNI-KLU), processing flight data captured at the UIB laboratory.

Drone demo: Illustration of the performance of an RGBD-based odometer developed at the UIB lab.

Pioneer demo: Autonomous underwater operation (Pioneer) realised by BEYE. Visualisation by RWTH.

Drone demo: Autonomous sweeping, mock-up rear part by UIB (Integration week Perama, Athens, Greece, May 2022).

Drone demo: Autonomous vertical inspection on the mock-up rear part by UIB (Integration week Perama, Athens, Greece, May 2022).

Drone demo: Autonomous sweeping & vertical inspection on an offshore platform by UIB (Integration week Trondheim, Norway, June 2022)

Drone demo: Autonomous sweeping in sequence at the biology station by UIB (Integration week Trondheim, Norway, June 2022).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grand agreement No 871260.