18:15

8:30

REGISTRATION and COFFEE

9:00

WELCOME

Daniel Toal/ Edin Omerdic / Edmond Magner (Dean Faculty of Science & Engineering, University of Limerick)

9:15

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1 - Underwater Swimming Manipulators

Kristin Y. Pettersen, NTNU, Norway

10:00

SWARMs: Smart and Networking UnderWAter Robots in Cooperation Meshes

Pedro Castillejo Parrilla, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

10:20

ROBUST: Robotic Subsea Exploration Technologies

Josep Quintana, Coronis Computing S.L., Spain

10:40

COFFEE BREAK

11:10

Trial and Validation of Autonomous Sensors, Vehicles and Prototypes using the SmartBay Cabled Subsea Observatory

John Breslin, SmartBay, Ireland

11:30

MarEH4EU: Remote Software Testing & Verification over the Internet

Thomas Vogele, DFKI Robotics Innovation Center, Germany

11:50

Marine Institute ROV operations 

David O’Sullivan, Marine Institute, Ireland

12:10

Nido Robotics: Bringing Underwater Robots to Everyone

Roy Petter Dyrdahl Torgersen, Nido Robotics, Spain

12:30

UNEXMIN: Autonomous Underwater Explorer for Flooded Mines

Mike McLoughlin, 4DCoders, UK

12:50

LUNCH BREAK

14:00

RAWFIE: Road-, Air-, and Water-based Future Internet Experimentation

Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, University of Athens, Greece

14:20

iXblue: Analysis of Positioning Performance of Sparse-LBL in O&G field Operations

Jim Titcomb, iXblue, UK

14:40

Towards Cheap Lightweight Bio-inspired Autonomous Vehicle Manipulation and Grasping Underwater

Fabio Bonsignorio, HeronRobots/CNR-ISSIA, Italy

15:00

Force/Position Control System to Enable Compliant Manipulation from a Floating I­AUV

Patryk Cieślak, University of Girona, Spain

15:20

COFFEE BREAK

15:40

Xocean: Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) for Ocean Data Collection

James Ives, Xocean, Ireland

16:00

STRONGMAR: Robots at Sea

Ana Paula Lima, INESC TEC, Portugal 

16:20

EvoLogics: Experimental Performance of an Underwater Acoustic Network of Mobile Nodes: Operational Exchange of Navigation and Sensor Data

Konstantin G. Kebkal, EvoLogics GmbH, Germany

16:40

Fusing Engineering with Software to Improve the Efficiency of Offshore Operations

Tim Rhodes, Fugro, UK

17:00

Nortek: New Generation DVLs for Underwater Vehicle Navigation

Claire Cardy, Nortek, UK

17:20

END OF DAY ONE

19:30

EMRA INFORMAL DINNER at STRAND Hotel (to be booked in your registration form - price: €55)

9:00

MORNING COFFEE

9:15

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2 - Subsea Imaging and Measurement for Machine Learning

Fergal Brennan, Cathx Ocean Ltd, Ireland

10:00

UTOFIA: Real-time Range-Gated 3D Camera for Subsea Applications

Asbjørn Berge, SINTEF Digital, Norway

10:20

WiMUST: Outline, Results and Future Perspectives

Giovanni Indiveri, University of Salento (ISME), Italy

10:40

MORUS: Unmanned System for Maritime Security and Environmental Monitoring

Stjepan Bogdan, University of Zagreb, Croatia

11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:20

The Bluemed Initiative: Joint And Integrated Research And Innovation Strategies For Blue Jobs And Growth In The Mediterranean Area

Elena Ciappi, CNR, Italy

11:40

EUMR: Key Marine Robotics Research Infrastructures for Starting Communities

António Sérgio Ferreira, UPORTO (LSTS-FEUP), Portugal

12:00

SeeByte: Data Management for Long-Term Deployment

Pedro Patron, SeeByte, UK

12:20

MaREI - Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy

Daniel Toal , University of Limerick, Ireland

12:40

ROVs for Use in Challenging Conditions: I-ROV & ROV ÉTÁIN

Gerard Dooly , University of Limerick, Ireland
Dawid Owen, FORUM Technologies, UK

13:00

OPEN DISCUSSION

Moderated by: Daniel Toal, University of Limerick, Ireland

13:40

LUNCH

14:45

END OF DAY TWO

Edin Omerdic

Ocean Rings

Ronald Thenius

The Project subCULTron explores the Lagoon of Venice