Underwater Robotics Ready for Oil Spills URready4OS
Kick off meeting tentative agenda
Cyprus 17-18 February 2014
Kick off meeting objectives according proposal:
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Everyone know the objective of the project and milestones
All the partners know their tasks and deadlines.
Prepare a scheme of the first progress report.
To establish how we are going to integrate all the vehicles and the software to use,
control platforms and data visualizations systems.
Plan the first experiment: objectives, constraints, schedule,…
Monday, 17 February 2014 (9:30 -19:30)
9:30 h – 11:00 Introduction session
1. Presentation of participants.
2. Presentation of activities of the Oceanography Center (University of Cyprus)
Georgios Georgiou (UCY)
3. Introduction to the project (Brussels kick-off meeting presentation)
Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
4. Budget, economic issues (audits requirements, coordination, money transfer, etc.) –
[video conference with Maria Jesus Legaz from UPCT]
5. Internal co-operation agreement
Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
6. Internal communication plan and collaborative tools (Dropbox, Teambox, Skype,
PBworks, etc.), web page.
Francisco Lopez UPCT
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 – 13:00 Tasks and deliverables review session
7. Review of actions, tasks and deliverables for each team.
Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
8. Review of resources for each task per institution.
(Javier Gilabert (UPCT), Joao Tasso (UP), Zoran Vukic (UZ), Georgios Georgeou (UCY))
9. Coordination of actions and tasks.
Open discussion all together
10. Expected constrain and how to deal with them
Open discussion all together, brain storming
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Experiments logistics review session
11. Selection and acquisition for AUVs probes (all together or each one?, budget)
Francisco Lopez (UPCT), Antonio Vasilijevic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ), Pedro Calado (UP), Dan Hayes (UCY).
12. Probes’ tests protocols (in lab and at sea), acquisition of calibration standards and dyes.
Francisco Lopez (UPCT), Antonio Vasilijevic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ), Pedro Calado (UP), Dan Hayes (UCY).
13. AUVs’ probes integration (methodology and protocols).
Joao Tasso (UP), Zoran Vukic (UZ), Pedro Calado (UP), Francisco Lopez (UPCT), Antonio Vasilijevic (UZ),
Nikola Miskovic (UZ).
14. Logistics for experiments I: transports, store locations, insurance.
Joao Tasso (UP), Zoran Vukic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ), Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
15. Logistics for experiments II: deployments (positioning and range systems
compatibilities, infrastructure at sea (boats, RHIBs, Scuba divers, command control
stations, communication and computer infrastructure (navigation data acquisition and
archiving standards, data bases)
Joao Tasso (UP), Zoran Vukic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ), Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Review of Autonomous Vehicles and Modelling tools available
16. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - AUVs (available models, compatibilities,
coordination) (UPCT, UP, UZ)
Pedro Calado (UP), Francisco Lopez (UPCT), Antonio Vasilijevic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ).
17. Unmanned Surface Vehicles - USVs (PODYPLOS and boats, available models, state-ofthe-art of applicable technology in the project, accessory equipment) (UZ, UP)
Pedro Calado (UP), Antonio Vasilijevic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ).
18. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - UAVs (available models, state-of-the-art of applicable
technology in the project, accessory equipment, vision cameras, IR cameras, etc.) (UP,
UPCT)
Joao Tasso (UP), Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
19. Hydrodynamic and Oil Spill Modelling (state-of-the-art of applicable technology,
available models, coordination) (UC, UPCT)
Georgios Georgeou (UCY), Dan Hayes (UCY), Francisco Lopez (UPCT),
18:00 – 18:15 Coffee Break
18:30 – 19:30 Protocols and software
20. Protocols and integration of protocols
21. Software for mission design, execution, navigation control
Joao Tasso (UP), Pedro Calado (UP), Francisco Lopez (UPCT), Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
22. Control systems consoles: (NEPTUS) and data managements (STOQS, NEPTUS, ODSS?)
Joao Tasso (UP), Pedro Calado (UP), Francisco Lopez (UPCT), Dan Hayes (UCY)
Tuesday, 18 February 2014 (9:30 -13:30)
9:30-11:00
23. Experience acquired and lessons learned from multivehicle collaborative experiments:
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AUV2011-Underwater robotics experiment in the Mar Menor coastal lagoon (UPCT).
(Javier Gilabert UPCT)
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REP13 (UP)
Joao Tasso (UP)
24. Review of check list of tasks and actions previous to the 1st experiment
- ConOp’s draft, mission planning, software and protocols integration
Francisco Lopez (UPCT), Antonio Vasilijevic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ), Pedro Calado (UP), Dan Hayes
(UCY).
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Modeling, data acquisition (met, bathymetry, winds, atm pressure, tides, …)
Georgios Georgeou (UCY), Dan Hayes (UCY), Francisco Lopez (UPCT),
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:45
Preliminary experiment planning
25. Objectives.
(Javier Gilabert UPCT), Zoran Vukic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ)
26. Task distribution between participants.
All together
27. Definition of software, protocols to be used
Pedro Calado (UP), Antonio Vasilijevic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ), Dan Hayes (UCY), Francisco Lopez (UPCT).
28. Logistics: dates, accommodation, infrastructure: boats, rhibs, scuba divers,
communication systems, servers, etc.
Zoran Vukic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ)
12:45 - 13:30
Review of deliverable documents
29. Discussion on contents (preliminary index), deadlines and design and tasks for each
group of deliverable documents and reports
29.1. White-paper
29.1.1 Review of tools, protocols and documents on preparedness for oil spill.
Georgios Georgiou (UCY), Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
29.1.2 Integration of the underwater oil spill tracking protocols
Zoran Vukic (UZ), Nikola Miskovic (UZ), Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
29.1.3 Guidlelines for integration of agents methodologies with existing ones
Georgios Georgiou (UCY), Javier Gilabert (UPCT)
29.2. Guidelines for ConOps
29.3. Progress reports (Francisco Lopez UPCT, Javier Gilabert UPCT)
29.4. Final Report (Francisco Lopez UPCT, Javier Gilabert UPCT)
Participants
UPCT (3 people):
Javier Gilabert
Francisco López
Dionisio Tudela
UP (3 people):
Joao Tasso
Pedro Calado
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UZ (3 people):
Zoran Vukic
Nikola Miskovic
Antonio Vasilijevic
UCY:
Georgeos Georgeou
Dan Hayes