! Breaking News !

We are pleased to announce that a Get Together Ice Breaker will be held on the 14th of May 2019 from 7pm to 9pm at the RCT Café, 55 Avenue de Besagne, 83000 Toulon.

Rugby Club Toulonnais is the famous professional rugby union club based in Toulon.

Drinks and finger food will be available for you to buy.

Download EMRA'19 programme

15th

MAY 2019, WEDNESDAY

8:30	REGISTRATION - Good morning coffee
9:00	WELCOME Jan Opderbecke, IFREMER, France
9:10	KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1 - Aquanaut - An autonomous intervention vehicle John Yamokoski, Houston Mechatronics, USA
9:50	TIC-AUV - Towards Intelligent Cognitive AUVs Francesco Maurelli, Jacobs University Bremen GMBH, Germany
10:10	Enduruns – first steps Alessio Turetta, GRAALTECH, Italy
10:30	CORAL – An industrial partnership for the development of an innovative deep-sea AUV for ocean sciences Jan Opderbecke, IFREMER, France & Thomas Roure, ECA-Robotics, France
10:50	COFFEE BREAK
11:10	OASYS Project - An overview Claudio Paliotta, OsloMet, Norway
11:30	From Coast to Depths: Strengthening our autonomous presence in the Ocean João Borges de Sousa, LSTS-FEUP, Portugal
11:50	EUMarineRobots - One year review of community engagement João Borges de Sousa, LSTS-FEUP, Portugal
12:10	Pôle Mer Méditerranée – A regional cluster for blue economy Alain Fidani, Pôle Mer Méditerranée, France
12:20	Short company presentations – Pôle Mer Méditerranée blue economy cluster Marine & submarine robotics companies, France ALSEAMAR. Yann Le Page, ALSEAMAR, France SOFRESUD. Marie-Annick Giraud, SOFRESUD, France Robopec. Eric Franchi, iXblue, division Robopec, France MARINETECH. CLS - Collecte Localisation Satellites. Gaetan Fabritius, CLS, France
12:50	LUNCH BREAK - Offered by Pôle Mer Méditerranée
14:00	RoboVaas – Robotic Vessels as-a-Service Gerard Dooly, Centre for Robotics & Intelligent Systems, Ireland
14:20	H2O Robotics Antonio Vasilijevic, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; H2O Robotics, Croatia
14:40	ROBINS – Robotics Technology for Inspection of Ships Enrico Carrara, RINA Services S.p.A., Italy
15:00	iBubble - The world's first autonomous underwater drone that follows you during your dives Solène Guéré, Notilo Plus, France
15:20	Lightning talks PLOCAN – Glider School. Daniel Alcaraz, PLOCAN, Spain SHIPTEST. Kyriakos Berketis, SpectrumNDT, Greece Seebyte. Alexis Urvoy, SeeByte, UK NetTag. Eduardo Silva, INESC TEC, Portugal
15:40	COFFEE BREAK
16:00	Subsea remote docking technologies and resident ROV Manuel Lopes Mendes, Forssea-Robotics, France
16:20	Miniature flash imaging LiDAR for bathymetry: an experimental proof-of-concept Christophe Pache, CSEM, Switzerland
16:40	ROBUST - Ready for sea trials Alessio Turetta, GRAALTECH, Italy
17:00	iXblue – Precision AUV navigation with sparse LBL Yann Casamajou, iXblue, France
17:00	uSEA Technologies - The future of subsea survey Felipe Lima, uSEA Technologies, Norway

17:30	END OF DAY ONE

18:30	Boat transfer from Toulon to IFREMER, Visit of IFREMER and EMRA Networking Dinner

22:00	Boat transfer from IFREMER back to Toulon

16th

MAY 2019, THURSDAY

8:45	GOOD MORNING COFFEE
9:00	KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2 - The Science Junction Box in the KM3NeT, an EMSO ERIC underwater observatory (part 1) & BathyBot – the deep-sea crawler to see the unseen of the NW Mediterranean Sea (part 2) Jennifer Greer, IFREMER, France & Christian Tamburini, MIO-CNRS, France
9:40	COSMER Lab - Underwater umbilical management between two robots Vincent Hugel, COSMER Lab, University of Toulon, France
10:00	OceanRINGS+: Making Subsea Complex Tasks Simple Edin Omerdic, University of Limerick, Ireland
10:20	ECOBOTICS.SEA – Bio-inspired Technologies for a Sustainable Marine Ecosystem Jorge Lobo, ISR - University of Coimbra, Portugal
10:40	SubCULTron - Swarm Robotics in the Lagoon of Venice Ronald Thenius, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria
11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:20	ROS – A backbone for collaborative robotics software development: an example of system implementation of Ifremer’s HROV Lorenzo Brignone, IFREMER, France
11:40	MATRAC – Adaptive real time monitoring with automated sampling and measurement Massimo Caccia, CNR, Italy
12:00	BLUEMED – Plan, test and coordinate underwater museums, diving parks and knowledge awareness centers Đula Nađ, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, LABUST, Croatia
12:20	IQUA Robotics - reconfigurable AUVs for research Joseta Roca and Guillem Vallicrosa, IQUA Robotics, Spain
12:40	ROUND TABLE
13:15	LUNCH

14:30	END OF DAY TWO

Download EMRA'19 programme

MAY 2019, WEDNESDAY

8:30

REGISTRATION - Good morning coffee

9:00

WELCOME

Jan Opderbecke, IFREMER, France

9:10

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1 - Aquanaut - An autonomous intervention vehicle

John Yamokoski, Houston Mechatronics, USA

9:50

TIC-AUV - Towards Intelligent Cognitive AUVs

Francesco Maurelli, Jacobs University Bremen GMBH, Germany

10:10

Enduruns – first steps

Alessio Turetta, GRAALTECH, Italy

10:30

CORAL – An industrial partnership for the development of an innovative deep-sea AUV for ocean sciences

Jan Opderbecke, IFREMER, France & Thomas Roure, ECA-Robotics, France

10:50

COFFEE BREAK

11:10

OASYS Project - An overview

Claudio Paliotta, OsloMet, Norway

11:30

From Coast to Depths: Strengthening our autonomous presence in the Ocean

João Borges de Sousa, LSTS-FEUP, Portugal

11:50

EUMarineRobots - One year review of community engagement

João Borges de Sousa, LSTS-FEUP, Portugal

12:10

Pôle Mer Méditerranée – A regional cluster for blue economy

Alain Fidani, Pôle Mer Méditerranée, France

12:20

Short company presentations – Pôle Mer Méditerranée blue economy cluster

Marine & submarine robotics companies, France

12:50

LUNCH BREAK - Offered by Pôle Mer Méditerranée

14:00

RoboVaas – Robotic Vessels as-a-Service

Gerard Dooly, Centre for Robotics & Intelligent Systems, Ireland

14:20

H2O Robotics

Antonio Vasilijevic, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; H2O Robotics, Croatia

14:40

ROBINS – Robotics Technology for Inspection of Ships

Enrico Carrara, RINA Services S.p.A., Italy

15:00

iBubble - The world's first autonomous underwater drone that follows you during your dives

Solène Guéré, Notilo Plus, France

15:20

Lightning talks

15:40

COFFEE BREAK

16:00

Subsea remote docking technologies and resident ROV

Manuel Lopes Mendes, Forssea-Robotics, France

16:20

Miniature flash imaging LiDAR for bathymetry: an experimental proof-of-concept

Christophe Pache, CSEM, Switzerland

16:40

ROBUST - Ready for sea trials

Alessio Turetta, GRAALTECH, Italy

17:00

iXblue – Precision AUV navigation with sparse LBL

Yann Casamajou, iXblue, France

17:00

uSEA Technologies - The future of subsea survey

Felipe Lima, uSEA Technologies, Norway

17:30

END OF DAY ONE

18:30

Boat transfer from Toulon to IFREMER, Visit of IFREMER and EMRA Networking Dinner

22:00

Boat transfer from IFREMER back to Toulon

MAY 2019, THURSDAY

8:45

GOOD MORNING COFFEE

9:00

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2 - The Science Junction Box in the KM3NeT, an EMSO ERIC underwater observatory (part 1) & BathyBot – the deep-sea crawler to see the unseen of the NW Mediterranean Sea (part 2)