Marine Robotics Innovation Centre
(MaRIC)
About MaRIC
Robotic technology has developed dramatically over the last decade and industries are eager to embrace the benefits and transit to Industry 4.0. The robotic technology has attracted considerable interest from transport applications, particularly in air and automotive transport. Recent advances in robotics open new horizons allowing science and industry to address problems, providing efficient solutions which could not be addressed through conventional methods. The marine and maritime sector is now following suit. Autonomous technology is poised to reshape the maritime sector with crewless vessels, autonomous shipping, and transportation.
The CMMI Marine Robotics Innovation Center (MaRIC) supports research and innovation in Marine Robotics aiming to bridge the gap between academia and industry by applying and supporting new technologies.
MaRIC is focused on solving real-world problems in the maritime and marine sectors providing efficient and novel solutions across a wide range of applications, such as:
- Ocean science
- Surveying and exploration
- Search and Rescue
- Inspection and Maintenance
- Aquaculture Industry
- Oil and Gas Industry
MaRIC’s research attention is devoted to the Cyber-Physical Systems’ (CPS) derivation of motion and task planning algorithms for heterogeneous multi-agent systems. Heterogeneous robotics systems include surface, underwater, ground, and aerial vehicles for marine applications. Cyber-physical systems typically appear in many complex autonomous subsystems, infrastructures, and human operators that interact with non-competing goals. Individual tasking of such complex systems is impossible for a human operator. Thus, MaRIC focuses on improving human safety and environmental protection in new and more challenging operations while expanding the marine and maritime sector capabilities with new technology development.
Contact information: MaRIC@cmmi.blue
Recent Publications:
- George Rossides and Christos C. Constantinou, “Trajectory Tracking and Fault Detection of Underactuated USVs based on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and Moving Horizon Estimation”, 30th Mediterranean Conference of Control and Automation, 2022.
- Rossides G, Hunter A, Metcalfe B. “Source Localisation using Wavefield Correlation-enhanced Particle Swarm Optimisation”, Robotics, 11(2), 2022.
- Christos C. Constantinou, Savvas G. Loizou and George P. Georgiades, “A Laser Vision System for Relative 3-D Posture Estimation of an Underwater Vehicle with Hemispherical Optics”, Robotics 10.4 (2021): 126.
- O. Zadorozhnyi, P. Tsiantis, E. Michaelides, C. C.Constantinou, I. Kyriakides, I. Alexopoulos, E. Abdi, J. Reodica, D. R. Hayes, “Marine Vehicle Tracking Using Agile Maritime IoTs,” Information Technology, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), 2021
- C. Constantinou, E. Michaelides, I. Alexopoulos, T. Pieri, S. Neophytou, I. Kyriakides, E. Abdi, J. Reodica, D. R. Hayes, “Modeling the Operating Characteristics of IoT for Underwater Sound Classification,” Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, 2021
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