Mare-IT: Powerful IT infrastructure for underwater maintenance with ground-breaking dual-arm AUV

The project Mare-IT focuses on enhancing the information flow between #underwater #robotic #systems, subsea assets, and land-based control stations to integrate# inspection data in business information systems. The targeted scenario is realized with the recently developed autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Cuttlefish, which is equipped with two robotic arms to interact with subsea structures. The #AUV can switch between autonomous operation and a semi-autonomous mode which allows manipulation of underwater structures in a teleoperated mode. Thus, AUVs will be able to take over tasks that have were were achiev previously carried outed previously carried out by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). In combination with subsea resident technologies, such innovative systems that can interact with the environment can provide a big push to the blue economy. To achieve the project’s goals, a series of scientific questions have been tackled: the design of dual arm autonomous underwater robots, the control of underwate