Autonomous Robotic Systems in Aquaculture: Research Challenges and Industry Needs
A half-day workshop to be held as part of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
Place: Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Date: 14th of October 2024, 14:00-18:00, Room 6
The full workshop recording at IROS 2024 entitled 'Autonomous Robotic Systems in Aquaculture: Research Challenges and Industry Needs' is available in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgcU78VztU8
An increasing world population raises concerns over food security which, consequently, opens new avenues for food production. Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture are important global contributors to the production of food from land and sea for human consumption. In the last decades, the aquaculture industry has been the fastest growing food producing sector in the world while also being known for substantially higher Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) risks than most industries, and still relying heavily on subjective and experience-based decisions and assessments, and intensive manual labor. To target current and future challenges, the industry has therefore shown an increased interest in utilizing robotic solutions in a variety of operations.
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and industry to discuss the state-of-art research achievements, share ideas and approaches enabling autonomous robotic systems in aquaculture. The workshop will through a series of invited and contributed talks discuss the utilization of autonomous robotic solutions in aquaculture by presenting challenges, R&D solutions and industrial applications in this sector. This workshop will investigate the directions for future research and innovations needed to increase the utilization of autonomous robotic systems in aquaculture which would lead not only to economical but also social and ethical benefits.
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Confirmed Invited Speakers
Maarja Kruusmaa
Professor at the Department of Computer Systems; Head of Biorobotics center, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
maarja.kruusmaa@taltech.ee
Kristine Vedal Størkersen
Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Ocean, Norway
Konstantinos Alexis
Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics; Head of the Autonomous Robot Lab, NTNU, Norway
konstantinos.alexis@ntnu.no
Eleni Kelasidi
Senior Research Scientist; Head of the Aquaculture Robotics and Autonomous systems Lab, SINTEF Ocean, Norway
Nadir Kapetanović
Leading Researcher at the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST), University of Zagreb, Croatia
nadir.kapetanovic@fer.hr
Annette Stahl
Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, Norway
Irfan Hussain
Assistant Professor in Robotics and Mechanical Engineering, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Nikos Papandroulakis
Research Director, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece
Organizers
Michael Triantafyllou, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering; Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director, MIT Sea Grant, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA, mistetri@mit.edu, URL
Eleni Kelasidi, Senior Research Scientist and head of the Aquaculture Robotics and Autonomous systems Lab, Department of Aquaculture Technology, SINTEF Ocean, Brattørkaia 17 C, 7010 Trondheim, Norway, eleni.kelasidi@sintef.no, URL: [contact person]
Themis Sapsis, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA, sapsis@mit.edu, URL
Martin Føre, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, Gløshaugen, O. S. Bragstads plass 2, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway, martin.fore@ntnu.no, URL
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Participants are required to abide by the IEEE RAS Code of Conduct
Contact information: Eleni.kelasidi@sintef.no