NOPTILUS

autoNomous, self-Learning, OPTImal and compLete Underwater Systems

Coordinatore	more  Organization address address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6th Km city: THERMI THESSALONIKI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: George Cognome: Giannopoulos Email: send email Telefono: +30 2310498210 Fax: +30 2310498110
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Non specificata
Totale costo	50˙004 €
EC contributo	0 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-04-01   -   2015-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS  Organization address address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6th Km city: THERMI THESSALONIKI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: George Cognome: Giannopoulos Email: send email Telefono: +30 2310498210 Fax: +30 2310498110	EL (THERMI THESSALONIKI)	coordinator	0.00
2	APDL - ADMINISTRACAO DOS PORTOS DODOURO E LEIXOES SA  Organization address address: AVENIDA DA LIBERDADE city: LECA DA PALMEIRA postcode: 4450718 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Elisa Cognome: Costa Email: send email Telefono: 351230000000 Fax: 351230000000	PT (LECA DA PALMEIRA)	participant	0.00
3	CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE  Organization address address: Rue Michel -Ange city: PARIS postcode: 75794 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Nathalie Cognome: APPEL Email: send email Telefono: 33383856085 Fax: 33383352381	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00
4	GEORGIA TECH LORRAINE ASSOCIATION  Organization address address: RUE MARCONI city: METZ postcode: 57070 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Brigitte Cognome: HUBERT Email: send email Telefono: +333 87 20 39 46	FR (METZ)	participant	0.00
5	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE  Organization address address: Exhibition Road, South Kensington Campus city: LONDON postcode: SW7 2AZ contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Shaun Cognome: Power Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7594 8773 Fax: +44 20 7594 8609	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00
6	OCEANSCAN - MARINE SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY LDA  Organization address address: RUA ACTOR FERREIRA DA SILVA city: PORTO postcode: 4200-298 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Alexandre Jorge Arada Cognome: Sousa Email: send email Telefono: +351 220301576 Fax: +351 220301511	PT (PORTO)	participant	0.00
7	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT  Organization address address: Stevinweg city: DELFT postcode: 2628 CN contact info Nome: Pieter Cognome: J. de Wit Email: send email Telefono: 310153000000 Fax: 310153000000	NL (DELFT)	participant	0.00
8	TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS INSTITUTE  Organization address address: Technical University of Crete Campus - Kounoupidiana city: CHANIA postcode: 73100 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Nikolaos Cognome: Sidiropoulos Email: send email Telefono: +30 2821037227 Fax: +30 2821037573	EL (CHANIA)	participant	0.00
9	UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO  Organization address address: PRACA GOMES TEIXEIRA city: PORTO postcode: 4099 002 contact info Nome: Mafalda Cognome: Marques Moreira Soeiro Email: send email Telefono: +351 225082171 Fax: +351 225081440	PT (PORTO)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Current multi-AUV systems are far from being capable of fully autonomously taking over real-life complex situation-awareness operations. As such operations require advanced reasoning and decision-making abilities the current designs have to heavily rely on human operators. The involvement of humans, however, is by no means a guarantee of performance; humans can easily be overwhelmed by the information overload, fatigue can act detrimentally to their performance, properly coordinating vehicles actions is hard, and continuous operation is all but impossible. Within NOPTILUS we take the view that an effective fully-autonomous multi-AUV concept/system, is capable of overcoming these shortcomings, by replacing human-operated operations by a fully autonomous one. To successfully attain such an objective, significant advances are required, involving cooperative & cognitive-based communications and sonars (low level), Gaussian Process-based estimation as well as perceptual sensory-motor and learning motion control (medium level), and learning/cognitive-based situation understanding and motion strategies (high level).Of paramount importance is the integration of all these advances and the demonstration of the NOPTILUS system in a realistic environment at the Port of Leixões, utilizing a team of 6 AUVs that will be operating continuously on a 24hours/7days-a-week basis. As part of this demonstration another important aspect of the NOPTILUS system that of (near-) optimality will be shown. Evaluation of the performance of the overall NOPTILUS system will be performed with emphasis on its robustness, dependability, adaptability and flexibility especially when it deals with completely unknown underwater environments and situations never taught before as well as its ability to provide with arbitrarily-close-to-the-optimal performance.