This project is funded by the European Union
H2020 project (Finished) "Submarine cultures perform long-term robotic exploration of unconventional environmental niches" (subCULTron; project ID 640967)
subCULTron aimed for achieving long-term autonomy in a learning, self-regulating, self-sustaining underwater society/culture of robots in a high-impact application area: Venice, Italy.
Our heterogeneous system consisted of 3 different agent types:
Artificial mussels are novel class of underwater agents. We developed novel sensors (electric sense/electro-communication), novel bio-inspired algorithms (underwater hives) and novel energy harvesting in underwater scenarios. Our application field is a human- and animal-co-inhabited real-world environment of high impact: Venice canals & lagoon.
The projet ended November 2019.