SWARMs CONF 2018                                    11th June 2018, Limerick, Ireland (co-located with EMRA 2018)

SWARMs Conference on Novel Solutions for Underwater Vehicles in Autonomous Sea Operations

• Development methodologies and novel designs for autonomous maritime missions including HMI designs, data formatting and transfer challenges.
• Distributed platform and architectures for integrating and coordinating underwater robotics vehicles: data modelling and context awareness, Industrial IoT middleware solutions.
• New solutions for sensors and processing algorithms for underwater environments: data processing, 3D mapping, landmark extraction, map matching, relocation.
• New solutions for underwater communication systems: advanced networking, integrated over and underwater communications, high speed underwater communication, integration of heterogeneous underwater communication systems.
• Design and development of embedded architecture and mission management solutions: mission management (planning, re-planning, monitoring, etc.), software architecture and its evaluation over simulated, experimental or real scenarios.
• Autonomous navigation and semi-autonomous manipulation: simulation tool for underwater vehicles, motion planning, hybrid acoustic and radio frequency communication and control for homing applications.