Adaptive Real-time Monitoring with Sampling Automation - Port Coastal Areas
This project will bolster the protection of port marine waters by improving monitoring quality with the help of innovative protocols based on highly automated robotic systems and adaptive sampling methodologies. The ports will have more productive, repetitive and accurate water monitoring. They will use standard procedures based on scalable technological solutions in terms of cooperation between robotic systems, automatic systems and human operators. This method will make it possible to use said innovative technologies in compliance with the current legislation on robotic vehicles in marine waters. It will equip ports with effective emergency systems while minimising human operator risk. It will improve the performance of traditional methods with the support of robotic technologies and more effective sampling strategies. It will be validated in collaboration with the port authorities of Genoa and Toulon, European and world level centres of excellence for robotics and automation research in the marine-maritime sector. For the past twenty years, the CNR and IFREMER marine robotics laboratories have been cooperating on European research projects. They are part of the cross-border area along with major commercial ports. This allows for the development of innovative technologies and monitoring protocols. In addition to improving the ecological and environmental impact of ports on neighbouring cities and coasts, these innovations can pave the way for new services and products connected to local SMEs. The cross-border approach allows to propose technological, procedural-operative and regulatory solutions extensible at European level.