ENDURUNS

Programma: H2020 – RIA – Research and Innovation action

Titolo del progetto: Development and demonstration of a long-endurance sea surveying autonomous unmanned vehicle with gliding capability powered by hydrogen fuel cell

Acronimo: ENDURUNS

Durata: 1/11/2018 – 31/10/2022

Budget totale: EUR 8.747.765

Budget ISMAR: EUR 550.875

Sito web: https://enduruns.eu

Sommario:

The main ambition of the ENDURUNS project is to develop an integrated hybrid AUV system capable of operating under deep ocean conditions and performing a wide-range of missions, targeting the increase of scientific knowledge as well as industrial capability and performance. Due to its versatile nature, the ENDURUNS system will be suited to perform scientific missions, such as seabed mapping, profiling, geological and geophysical surveys, commercial missions, such as inspection of infrastructure and assets, mineral and seabed mining exploration missions and public authority missions such as surveillance, search and find missions (e.g. aircraft wreckage), equally well. Therefore, the ENDURUNS system will enable for the first time long endurance missions demonstrated up to TRL 5 or above during the project for a wide variety of high impact deep sea applications. The AUV and USV combination are expected to significantly outperform all existing AUV vehicles, in terms of endurance, positioning, survey capability, resolution, sensitivity, etc.

Persona di contatto in ISMAR: simone.marini@sp.ismar.cnr.it

Partnership:

  1. Altus Lsa Commercial And Manufacturing Sa (Greece)
  2. Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (Italy)
  3. Graal Tech Srl (Italy)
  4. Compagnie Maritime D Expertises Sa (France)
  5. Engitec Systems International Limited (Cyprus)
  6. Sace Applications Services Nv (Belgium)
  7. On Air Srl (Italy)
  8. Uab Metis Baltic (Lithuania)
  9. Valstybes Imone Klaipedos Valstybinio Juru Uosto Direkcija (Lithuania)
  10. Hysytech Srl (Italy)
  11. Zarras Dimitrios (Greece)
  12. Swiss Approval South East Mediterranean Sea (Sems) Ltd (Cyprus)
  13. The University Of Birmingham (Uk)
  14. Universidad De Castilla – La Mancha (Spain)
  15. “National Center For Scientific Research “”Demokritos””” (Greece)Tuco Yacht Vaerft Aps (Denmark)