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Workshops
6th Biannual NRC-IOT Workshop on Underwater Vehicle Technology
October 20-21, 2010
St. John's Convention Centre
St. John's, Newfoundland
The NRC-IOT workshop will be a forum for specialists from industry, university and research organizations. We anticipate having presentations that address the following five major topics.
1. Multi-agent vehicle systems - what hardware and software is required to make this happen, who is working in this area, what progress has been made, what are the major challenges, where are the opportunities for collaboration?
2. Autonomous "gateway" or "beacon" vehicles as part of a "fleet" of autonomous submerged vehicles -fleet path planning and optimization, role of COTS software.
3. Under-ice navigation and tracking - inter-vehicle communications while submerged.
4. Vehicle technology (gizmos) - what's new, what's over the horizon, what will be the next "technology enabler"?
5. Customer applications - tracking, monitoring, surveillance and inspection for the Department of Fisheries &Amp; Oceans, National Defence, Canadian Coast Guard and the oil and gas industry, and, other commercial interests.