MATS Showcase 2019

Presentations from MATS 2019

The programme for MATS 2019 was themed in order to tell a complete story of deploying a Marine Autonomous System (MAS), from the motivations for doing so, to getting in the water and then taking the data collected from a deployment and turning that into useful information. The aim of this programme was to ensure that there was an opportunity to engage in this event, either as a speaker or as part of the audience, for anyone involved with MAS.

Our first session was titled ‘Users and Applications’ and gave an opportunity for science, industry or defence end-users to talk about their needs from MAS. We then moved on to a session on ‘Planning and Control’, looking at what needs to happen prior to deployment and how the vehicles are controlled whilst deployed. We then focused our third theme on ‘The Vehicle’ and had talks from providers of the variety of platforms that are deployed to carry the sensors, cameras and manipulators that gather the data, and these became the focus of our third theme of ‘Data Collection’. Our final theme intended to take us full circle and focussed on taking the data collected and turning it into useful information for the end-users we started the event with as we saw discussions on ‘Generating Information from Data’.

We have been granted permission by many of the presenters to make their presentation available, please click on the links below to view the available presentations

MATS 2019 Day 1 Presentations

	Tuesday 12 November 2019			Contact information for presentation
11.00	Aidan Thorn NOC Daily Host
11.10	Welcome - Prof Ed Hill OBE Chief Executive NOC	Welcome	NOC
11.30	Jim Birch - Director, SURF Centre - Sensors: Underwater Research of the Future - MBARI	Keynote	MBARI
12.00	Nick Lambert - Ocean Infinity	Keynote	Ocean Infinity	Nick Lambert nick.lambert@nlaltd.co.uk
1.50	Session chair theme 1 - Users and Applications - Peter Collinson BP
2.00	A CAMEL in Belize: using an autonomous surface vehicle to trace the Belize River plume.	Sarah Cryer	NOC
2.20	Robotics and artificial intelligence for offshore wind farms	Simon Cheeseman	ORE Catapult
2.40	Acquiring otherwise unobtainable sound level data in close proximity to an oil and gas asset - with marine robotics	Mark Burnett	Seiche
3.00	STAFES-APP: Single Turnover Active Fluorometry applied to Enclosed Samples for Autonomous Phytoplankton Productivity	Kevin Oxborough	Chelsea Technologies
3.50	Essential Ocean Variables for Global Ocean Observing Systems	Matt Mowlem	NOC
4.10	The use of Marine Autonomous Systems in emergency oil spill response	Marta Januszewska	Oil Spill Response
4.30	A2I2: A novel autonomous solution for offshore and nuclear end-users	Ben Leslie	Rovco
4.50	Localizing underwater acoustic pingers using a streamlined method with an AUV	Emma Carline	Ocean Sonics

MATS 2019 Day 2 Presentations

	Wednesday 13 November 2019
				Contact information for presentation
9.00	Session chair theme 2 Planning and Control - Ben Pritchard Thales UK
9.15	OCEANIDS C2 - A unified command and control infrastructure for the NERC long-range fleet.	Alvaro Lorenzo Lopez	NOC
9.35	Experimenting with an Integrated Mission Management Systems for Maritime Autonomy	Stewart Radcliffe	Thales UK
9.55	The Autonomy Toolbox Enabling Safe Autonomous Navigation in Real-World Field Operations.	Hannah Thomas	L3Harris	Sarah Dyer Sarah.Dyer@L3Harris.com
11.00	Agent Based Modelling to Ship Simulators: Operational Analysis for novel autonomous systems	Chloe Woodger-Smith	BMT
11.20	Coordination of Multiple Marine Assets for Port Security - ANTX 19 Exercise	Dave Gentle	ION
11.40	How to leverage Subsea Digitalization to Plan & Control the operation of MAS	Rafael Simão	Abyssal SA
1.15	session chair theme 3 The Vehicle – Maaten Furlong NOC
1.30	The use of highly economic, lighter class AUV’s for shallow water infrastructure surveys	Keith Wallace	Blue Ocean Monitoring
1.50	25 Years of AUVs Under Ice: The Technology of the 2019 Expedition to Send an ISE Explorer AUV Under the Sørsdal Glacier Ice Shelf	Alex Johnson	International Submarine Engineering Ltd.
2.10	Revolutionary Autonomous Subsea Inspection Capability: Reducing Ship Time, Increasing Safety and Reducing Costs.	James Cowles	L3Harris
2.30	Early results from an experimental fuel cell powered, long range, autonomous underwater vehicle with anchoring capability	Adrian Woodroffe	Cellula Robotics
2.50	Driftcam: A lagrangian float for scalable and low cost wide area seafloor imaging	Miquel Massot Campos	University of Southampton
3.50	Developments of Resident and Hosted Underwater Vehicles	Matthew Bates	Saab Seaeye Ltd
4.10	Autosub 2000 under Ice - The NOCs new under ice AUV	Matthew Kingsland	NOC
4.30	Using one robot to deploy another robot: deploying an ocean glider in remote locations	Karen Heywood	University of East Anglia
4.50	ecoSUB AUVs – multi-vehicle networks & smart navigation	Iain Vincent	ecoSUB Robotics Ltd
5.25	MASG Council update including MAChallenge 2020	Geraint West	MASG Council Chair

MATS 2019 Day 3 Presentations

	Thursday 14 November 2019			Contact information for presentation
9.00	Session Chair theme 4 Data Collection - Matthew Mowlem	NOC
9.15	Autonomous sensors for detection of leaks from a carbon capture and storage site	Allison Schaap	NOC
9.35	Data Collection with Nutrient Sensors on Autonomous Vehicles	Alex Beaton	NOC
9.55	Environmental Monitoring of The Ocean Cleanup by AutoNaut USV	Phil Johnston	Autonaut
10.15	Choosing the right ocean robot to gather your data.	Iosoba Tena	Sonardyne
11.05	Autonomous Vehicle Optical Machine Vision Automation	Adrian Boyle	Cathx Ocean
11.25	A Carbonate chemistry autonomous sensor system for ocean acidification and carbonate chemistry monitoring	Socratis Loucaides	NOC
11.45	Autonomous eDNA sampling for biomonitoring of marine ecosystems	Robyn Samual	NOC
1.20	Session chair theme 5 Generating information from data - Eleanor Frajke-Williams NOC
1.40	3D visual mapping and rapid understanding of multi-hectare benthic habitats	Blair Thornton	University of Southampton	Blair Thornton B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk
2.00	Soundtiles: creating informative mosaics out of forward-looking sonar data	Natàlia Hurtós	IQUA Robotics
2.20	Risk & Reliability Engineering of MARS AUVs: Fault Management and Data analysis Tools	Carolina Dopico-Gonzalez	NOC
2.40	The Oceanids C2 data system – now and next	Justin Buck	NOC -BODC
3.30	Dealing with the data problem: leveraging machine learning approaches in maritime robotics	Scott Read	SeeByte
3.50	ecoSUB coral reef surveys in Zanzibar – bringing autonomy to developing/lower income countries	Jeremy Sitbon	ecoSUB Ltd
4.10	Machine Learning for enhanced underwater inspection	EIVA