Universidad de Murcia. Grupo de Investigación Ingeniería Aplicada

The Robotics Lab of the Applied Engineering Research Group (GIIA) has a long experience in Robotics Research, covering different aspects of Industrial Robots, Autonomous Vehicles and Laboratory Robots. I the last years the laboratory has specialized and focuses in Underwater Robotics and Technologies. We count with different low-cost commercial underwater robots, sonar systems (echo sounders, scanning sonars, side scan sonars, Doppler sonars, USBL sonars), and inertial sensors. We have developed a framework for controlling and monitoring the robots, in which we have integrated our own developed underwater positioning system, which allows our applications to georeference inspected underwater objects and trajectories. We have produced some applications which include 3D bathymetry, ship hull inspection, fish farms servicing, etc. For this last application we have developed our own robust Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV).

General
Registered office: Universidad de Murcia. Grupo de Investigación Ingeniería Aplicada
Entity type: Research Group of University/Research Centre/Public Research Organisation
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Contact data
City: Murcia
State: Murcia
Country: Spain
Contact: Humberto Martínez Barberá (humberto@um.es)
Web: http://giia.inf.um.es
Technological Aspects

Type of tecnology base of the institution activities

General domain:
  • Laboratory Robotics
Cross domain:
  • Marine Robotics
Technology:
  • AI and Cognition
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Mechatronics
  • Perception

Types of activities developed by the institution

  • Robot programming (software development)
  • Integral customised projects for end users
  • Research and development projects