The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Program in Marine & Maritime Intelligent Robotics is organizing the 2025 Annual Symposium and Robotics Championship in Trondheim, Norway.
MIR 5th Annual Symposium & Robotics Challenge, NTNU (Norway), June 3-5, 2025
United they Stand: the Beauty and Power of Cooperative Marine Robots
António M Pascoal, Professor of Control and Robotics, Laboratory of Robotics and Systems in Engineering and Science (LARSys), IST, Lisbon Portugal
Underwater perception at CIRS (DeeperSense - Deep-Learning for Multimodal Sensor Fusion)
Nuno Gracias, Associate Professor University of Girona, Spain
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION
11:00-12:30 - Session 2
Chair: Linda Cathrine Hald, Ocean Autonomy Cluster
Research and researcher driven innovation
Asgeir J. Sørensen, Professor NTNU IMT
Industrial project and company presentations, 10 minutes each
Maritime Robotics AS (Norway) - Autonomous Navigation Systems & Uncrewed Surface Vessel; and the project SMAUG (Smart Maritime and Underwater Guardian)
Blueye (Norway) - Professional, portable and versatile underwater drones and the project BUGWRIGHT2 - Autonomous Robotic Inspection and Maintenance on Ship Hulls
14:00-15:00 Session 4: Research and Innovation Access Session
Chairs: Linda Cathrine Hald, Ocean Autonomy Cluster and Antonio Vasilijevic, NTNU
KONGSBERG DISCOVERY (Norway) - Advancing Technology for the Whole Ocean Space
DEVELOGIC (Germany) - Underwater communication, monitoring, and data acquisition systems for marine applications
IN2 Group (Croatia) - Digitalization, smart ports and IoT.
FAMELINE ENERGY (Cyprus) - Rental, consultancy and training for energy sector.
ONE-BLUE - Integrated approach to assess the levels and impact of conaminants of emerging concern on BLUE health and biodiversity modulated by climate change drivers and
SEACLEAR2.0 Scalable Full-cycle Marine Litter Remediation in the Mediterranean: Robotic and Participatory Solutions
University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
Ivana Palunko, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
Competence Centre of Sustainability Robotics (Related prjects: ProteusDrone and DroneHub) Mirko Kovac, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Tecnology (Empa) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
TRIDENT - Technology based impact assessment tool for sustainable, transparent Deep sea mining exploration and exploitation
National Oceanography Centre, UK & Inesc Tec, Portugal
Georgios Salavasidis, National Oceanography Centre, UK
15:10-15:30 COFFEE BREAK, networking and poster session
15:30-17:00 Ongoing EU-funded projects - 10 min. each
Chair: Fausto Ferreira, FER University of Zagreb
RAMONES - Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems
David Cabecinhas , IST University of Lisbon, Portugal
FAITH - Fostering Artificial Intelligence Trust for Humans towards the optimization of trustworthiness through large-scale pilots in critical domains
Alberto Topini, University of Florence, Italy
AEROSUB - Automated Inspection Robots for Surface, Aerial, and Underwater Substructures
Edin Omerdic, University of Limerick, Ireland
CLIMAREST - Coastal Climate Resilience and Marine Restorations Tools for the Arctic Atlantic basin
Ida Beathe Øverjordet, SINTEF Ocean, Norway
NETTAG+ - Preventing, avoiding and mitigating environmental impacts of fishing gears and associated marine litter.
Ana Paula Lima, INESC TEC, Portugal
ILIAD - A data-intensive, cost-effective Digital Twin of the Ocean
Antonio Vasilijevic, NTNU Norway
BRIGANTINE - Chemico-physical and multispectral Data fusion for Adriatic sea monitoring by autonomous vessel (Interreg) .
Luca Gemolotto, INESC TEC, Italy
17:00 End of day
19:00-22:00
Informal dinner at Rockheim
Beware: Starts on time!
07:30: Morning run in the city centre - starts at Pirbadet
