Innovative Technologies Developed for Autonomous Marine Vehicles by ENDURUNS Project

Pedro José Bernalte Sánchez; Fausto Pedro García Márquez; Mayorkinos Papaelias; Simone Marini; Shashank Govindaraj; Lilian Durand

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-2541-2_22

Innovative Technologies Developed for Autonomous Marine Vehicles by ENDURUNS Project

Pedro José Bernalte Sánchez, Fausto Pedro García Márquez^*, Mayorkinos Papaelias, Simone Marini, Shashank Govindaraj, Lilian Durand

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Abstract

In the last years, the interest for offshore areas exploitation has been increased and the marine industry has been experiencing a great growth. These facts motivate the employment of autonomous marine vehicles for monitorization, survey or maintenance works. In this paper, the ENDURUNS project has been proposed. This European initiative develops a sustainable offshore exploration system-based innovation in two coordinated autonomous marine vehicles (surface and underwater vessels), both powered by renewable energies. This project involves great technical challenges due to the goal of zero emission performance. The communications’ infrastructures are an important milestone to achieve a real time monitoring of the system by the user from the remote-control centre. The energy systems employed (solar photovoltaic and hydrogen fuel cell technologies) bring a distinguishing point with regards to the current marine vehicles market. Finally, the sensors and instrumentation implemented in these vehicles allow a high inspection capacity, where all of these are supported by a complex software customization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ubiquitous Intelligent Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of Second ICUIS 2022
Editors	P. Karuppusamy, Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Tu N. Nguyen
Publisher	Springer
Pages	279-290
Number of pages	12
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811925412
ISBN (Print)	9789811925405, 9789811925436
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2541-2_22
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2022
Event	2nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligent Information Systems, ICUIS 2022 - Gopichettipalaiyam, India Duration: 10 Mar 2022 → 11 Mar 2022

Publication series

Name	Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume	302
ISSN (Print)	2190-3018
ISSN (Electronic)	2190-3026

Conference

Conference	2nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligent Information Systems, ICUIS 2022
Country/Territory	India
City	Gopichettipalaiyam
Period	10/03/22 → 11/03/22

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The energy management for a long endurance together with the employment of the renewable energies are the most notable research challenges for autonomous devices development [5]. In this line, appears the governmental enterprise initiatives supporting this evolution. The ENDURUNS project, in the Horizon 2020 framework financed by the European Commission, has the aim to design a modern offshore mapping system composed by two coordinated autonomous vehicles powered by renewable energies [6]. Due to the mentioned energy systems implemented, it is expected to achieve up to 6 months of energetic and operability autonomy. This goal supposes a considerable advance in the marine vehicles market endurances, some of the latest models as Bluefin 21 by General Dynamics in AUV case [7] and C-Enduro in USV case [8], achieving around 48 h and 70 days of autonomy respectively. These commercial vehicle’s references (electrical or conventional fuel) haven’t got a large endurance as this project expects, furthermore none of them employs the combination of surface and underwater devices for offshore inspections.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Keywords

Autonomous marine vehicles
Endurance
Green energies
Hydrogen fuel cell
Marine exploration
Sustainability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Decision Sciences
General Computer Science

UN SDGs

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Sánchez, P. J. B., Márquez, F. P. G., Papaelias, M., Marini, S., Govindaraj, S., & Durand, L. (2022). Innovative Technologies Developed for Autonomous Marine Vehicles by ENDURUNS Project. In P. Karuppusamy, F. P. García Márquez, & T. N. Nguyen (Eds.), Ubiquitous Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of Second ICUIS 2022 (1 ed., pp. 279-290). (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; Vol. 302). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2541-2_22

Sánchez, Pedro José Bernalte ; Márquez, Fausto Pedro García ; Papaelias, Mayorkinos et al. / Innovative Technologies Developed for Autonomous Marine Vehicles by ENDURUNS Project. Ubiquitous Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of Second ICUIS 2022. editor / P. Karuppusamy ; Fausto Pedro García Márquez ; Tu N. Nguyen. 1. ed. Springer, 2022. pp. 279-290 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies).

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Innovative Technologies Developed for Autonomous Marine Vehicles by ENDURUNS Project. / Sánchez, Pedro José Bernalte; Márquez, Fausto Pedro García; Papaelias, Mayorkinos et al.
Ubiquitous Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of Second ICUIS 2022. ed. / P. Karuppusamy; Fausto Pedro García Márquez; Tu N. Nguyen. 1. ed. Springer, 2022. p. 279-290 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; Vol. 302).

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Sánchez PJB, Márquez FPG, Papaelias M, Marini S, Govindaraj S, Durand L. Innovative Technologies Developed for Autonomous Marine Vehicles by ENDURUNS Project. In Karuppusamy P, García Márquez FP, Nguyen TN, editors, Ubiquitous Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of Second ICUIS 2022. 1 ed. Springer. 2022. p. 279-290. (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies). Epub 2022 Jul 25. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-2541-2_22

Innovative Technologies Developed for Autonomous Marine Vehicles by ENDURUNS Project

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