CART

Cooperative Autonomous Robotic Towing system

Coordinatore	POSIDONIA SRL    more  Organization address address: VIA GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO 12 city: GENOVA postcode: 16165 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Serena Cognome: Ardito Email: send email Telefono: +39 10 8380098 Fax: +39 10 8369835
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	912˙113 €
EC contributo	658˙400 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2011
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-11-01   -   2013-07-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	POSIDONIA SRL  Organization address address: VIA GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO 12 city: GENOVA postcode: 16165 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Serena Cognome: Ardito Email: send email Telefono: +39 10 8380098 Fax: +39 10 8369835	IT (GENOVA)	coordinator	361˙159.00
2	PKL AS  Organization address address: Lootsi 11 city: TALLINN postcode: 10151 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Deniss Cognome: Lazarevs Email: send email Telefono: +372 6318150	EE (TALLINN)	participant	162˙690.00
3	SRS MECANO INSTALATIE SRL  Organization address address: STR BARBU DELAVRANCEA 10 city: BUCURESTI postcode: 11355 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Nicolae Mihail Cognome: Marinescu Email: send email Telefono: +40 212223044 Fax: +40 212223044	RO (BUCURESTI)	participant	127˙591.00
4	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Massimo Cognome: Caccia Email: send email Telefono: +39 10 6475612 Fax: +39 10 6475600	IT (ROMA)	participant	3˙394.00
5	UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING  Organization address address: Unska 3 city: ZAGREB postcode: 10000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Olga Cognome: župani? Email: send email Telefono: +385 1 6129722 Fax: +385 1 6170007	HR (ZAGREB)	participant	2˙424.00
6	DNV GL AS  Organization address address: VERITASVEIEN 1 city: HOVIK postcode: 1363 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Giacomo Cognome: Meazzi Email: send email Telefono: +39 10 587492 Fax: +39 10 565680	NO (HOVIK)	participant	1˙142.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'A team of 3 SMEs, coordinated by a young woman entrepreneur, proposes a new concept for salvage operations of distressed ships at sea. The proposed concept, called CART (Cooperative Autonomous Robotic Towing system) is based on the development of robotised unmanned marine platforms able to (semi-)automatically execute the high risk operation of linking the emergency towing system of distressed ships to towing vessels. The CART device will be able to optimise the operations for safeguarding the environment, helping to prevent oil pollution at sea, and minimising the risk for human lives. The SME participants, thanks to their know-how in emergency towing devices and salvage operations, as well as in the implementation of automation plants, can formulate and validate new concepts of intervention and contribute to the development of critical sub-systems. Anyway, for bridging the gap between the formulation of an operational concept and its in-field validation with a prototype tool in a time compatible with time-to-market requirements, the SME participants need the transfer of know-how from experienced RTD performers operating in the area of robotics and unmanned marine vehicles, as well as the application of qualification procedures for new technologies. Thus, two European leading research and academic institutions in the field of marine robotics and one of the world's leading classification societies have been involved in the project as RTD developers. They will also perform extended training of SMEP personnel in order to provide them with the needed know-how to execute the follow-up activities of engineering and manufacturing of the CART system. Technologies based on robotised unmanned marine vehicles combined with the coming into force of international safety rules, that will make mandatory for the global fleet the use of emergency towing devices, can play a game-changing role in the field of salvage intervention at sea opening significant business opportunities.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU project's system allows low-risk ship rescues. Depending on circumstances, either a manually driven submersible or an automatic boat will lasso a specially attached tow-pod launched from a troubled ship.