MATS Showcase 2019

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Presentations from MATS 2019

The programme for MATS 2019 was themed in order to tell a complete story of deploying a Marine Autonomous System (MAS), from the motivations for doing so, to getting in the water and then taking the data collected from a deployment and turning that into useful information. The aim of this programme was to ensure that there was an opportunity to engage in this event, either as a speaker or as part of the audience, for anyone involved with MAS.

Our first session was titled ‘Users and Applications’ and gave an opportunity for science, industry or defence end-users to talk about their needs from MAS. We then moved on to a session on ‘Planning and Control’, looking at what needs to happen prior to deployment and how the vehicles are controlled whilst deployed. We then focused our third theme on ‘The Vehicle’ and had talks from providers of the variety of platforms that are deployed to carry the sensors, cameras and manipulators that gather the data, and these became the focus of our third theme of ‘Data Collection’. Our final theme intended to take us full circle and focussed on taking the data collected and turning it into useful information for the end-users we started the event with as we saw discussions on ‘Generating Information from Data’.

We have been granted permission by many of the presenters to make their presentation available, please click on the links below to view the available presentations

MATS 2019 Day 1 Presentations

 

Tuesday 12 November 2019

 

 

Contact information for presentation 

11.00

Aidan Thorn NOC Daily Host

 

 

 

11.10

Welcome -  Prof Ed Hill OBE Chief Executive NOC

Welcome

NOC

 

11.30

Jim Birch -  Director, SURF Centre - Sensors: Underwater Research of the Future - MBARI

Keynote

MBARI

 

12.00

Nick Lambert - Ocean Infinity

Keynote

Ocean Infinity

Nick Lambert 

nick.lambert@nlaltd.co.uk

1.50

Session chair theme 1 - Users and Applications - Peter Collinson BP

 

 

 

2.00

A CAMEL in Belize: using an autonomous surface vehicle to trace the Belize River plume.

Sarah Cryer

NOC

 

2.20

Robotics and artificial intelligence for offshore wind farms

Simon Cheeseman

ORE Catapult

 

2.40

Acquiring otherwise unobtainable sound level data in close proximity to an oil and gas asset - with marine robotics

Mark Burnett

Seiche

 

3.00

STAFES-APP: Single Turnover Active Fluorometry applied to Enclosed Samples for Autonomous Phytoplankton Productivity

Kevin Oxborough

Chelsea Technologies

 

3.50

Essential Ocean Variables for Global Ocean Observing Systems

Matt Mowlem

NOC

 

4.10

The use of Marine Autonomous Systems in emergency oil spill response

Marta Januszewska

Oil Spill Response

 

4.30

A2I2: A novel autonomous solution for offshore and nuclear end-users

Ben Leslie  

Rovco

 

4.50

Localizing underwater acoustic pingers using a streamlined method with an AUV

Emma Carline

Ocean Sonics

 

MATS 2019 Day 2 Presentations

 

Wednesday 13 November 2019

 

 

 
  

 

 

Contact information for presentation 

9.00

Session chair theme 2 Planning and Control - Ben Pritchard Thales UK

 

 

 

9.15

OCEANIDS C2 - A unified command and control infrastructure for the NERC long-range fleet.

Alvaro Lorenzo Lopez

NOC

 

9.35

Experimenting with an Integrated Mission Management Systems for Maritime Autonomy

Stewart Radcliffe

Thales UK

 

9.55

The Autonomy Toolbox Enabling Safe Autonomous Navigation in Real-World Field Operations.

Hannah Thomas  

L3Harris

Sarah Dyer 

Sarah.Dyer@L3Harris.com 

11.00

Agent Based Modelling to Ship Simulators: Operational Analysis for novel autonomous systems

Chloe Woodger-Smith

BMT

 

11.20

Coordination of Multiple Marine Assets for Port Security - ANTX 19 Exercise

Dave Gentle  

ION

 

11.40

How to leverage Subsea Digitalization to Plan & Control the operation of MAS

Rafael Simão

Abyssal SA

 

1.15

session chair theme 3 The Vehicle – Maaten Furlong NOC

 

 

 

1.30

The use of highly economic, lighter class AUV’s for shallow water infrastructure surveys

Keith Wallace

Blue Ocean Monitoring

 

1.50

25 Years of AUVs Under Ice: The Technology of the 2019 Expedition to Send an ISE Explorer AUV Under the Sørsdal Glacier Ice Shelf

Alex Johnson

International Submarine Engineering Ltd.

 

2.10

Revolutionary Autonomous Subsea Inspection Capability: Reducing Ship Time, Increasing Safety and Reducing Costs.

James Cowles  

L3Harris

 

2.30

Early results from an experimental fuel cell powered, long range, autonomous underwater vehicle with anchoring capability

Adrian Woodroffe

Cellula Robotics

 

2.50

Driftcam: A lagrangian float for scalable and low cost wide area seafloor imaging

Miquel Massot Campos

University of Southampton

 

3.50

Developments of Resident and Hosted Underwater Vehicles

Matthew Bates

Saab Seaeye Ltd

 

4.10

Autosub 2000 under Ice - The NOCs new under ice AUV

Matthew Kingsland

NOC

 

4.30

Using one robot to deploy another robot: deploying an ocean glider in remote locations

Karen Heywood

University of East Anglia

 

4.50

ecoSUB AUVs – multi-vehicle networks & smart navigation

Iain Vincent

ecoSUB Robotics Ltd

 

5.25

MASG Council update including MAChallenge

2020

Geraint West

MASG Council Chair

 

MATS 2019 Day 3 Presentations

 

Thursday 14 November 2019

 

 

Contact information for presentation 

9.00

Session Chair theme 4 Data Collection - Matthew Mowlem

 NOC

 

 

9.15

Autonomous sensors for detection of leaks from a carbon capture and storage site

Allison Schaap

NOC

 

9.35

Data Collection with Nutrient Sensors on Autonomous Vehicles

Alex Beaton  

NOC

 

9.55

Environmental Monitoring of The Ocean Cleanup by AutoNaut USV

Phil Johnston

Autonaut

 

10.15

Choosing the right ocean robot to gather your data.

Iosoba Tena

Sonardyne

 

11.05

Autonomous Vehicle Optical Machine Vision Automation

Adrian Boyle

Cathx Ocean

 

11.25

A Carbonate chemistry autonomous sensor system for ocean acidification and carbonate chemistry monitoring

Socratis Loucaides

NOC

 

11.45

Autonomous eDNA sampling for biomonitoring of marine ecosystems

Robyn Samual

NOC

 

1.20

Session chair theme 5 Generating information from data - Eleanor Frajke-Williams NOC

 

  

1.40

3D visual mapping and rapid understanding of multi-hectare benthic habitats

Blair Thornton

University of Southampton

Blair Thornton 

B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk

2.00

Soundtiles: creating informative mosaics out of forward-looking sonar data

Natàlia Hurtós

IQUA Robotics

 

2.20

Risk & Reliability Engineering of MARS AUVs: Fault Management and Data analysis Tools

Carolina Dopico-Gonzalez

NOC

 

2.40

The Oceanids C2 data system – now and next

Justin Buck

NOC -BODC

 

3.30

Dealing with the data problem: leveraging machine learning approaches in maritime robotics

Scott Read

SeeByte

 

3.50

ecoSUB coral reef surveys in Zanzibar – bringing autonomy to developing/lower income countries

Jeremy Sitbon

ecoSUB Ltd

 

4.10

Machine Learning for enhanced underwater inspection

EIVA

 

 

Presenter Biographies.

To view the profiles of the Keynote speakers and the daily and session hosts please click here 

To view presenter biographies per theme please click below

1. Users and Applications 

2. Planning and Control 

3. The Vehicle 

4. Data Collection 

5. Generating Information from Data

 

Exhibitors at MATS 2019

 

 

The National Oceanography Centre 

European Way, Southampton 

Hampshire, SO14 3ZH

For further information email NOCevents@noc.ac.uk