Conference

May 7 - May 14, 2023

The need for robotics and automatization to meet our global coral restoration goals

Dr. Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, BESE/Red Sea Research Center, KAUST

May 10, 17:15 - 17:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Factory Automation planning Scheduling and Coordination

The UK National Centre for Coastal Autonomy (NCCA) – A centre of excellence for coastal marine autonomy

Dr. Matthew Palmer, Head of Science - Digital Innovation & Marine Autonomy, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

May 10, 16:45 - 17:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Coastal Ocean Ocean Observing Systems Marine Autonomy Digital Technology

Optical wireless communication for underwater internet of things

Boon Ooi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 10, 16:15 - 16:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Sensor networks Omnidirectional Vision Product Design Development and Prototyping Range Sensing Surveillance Systems

Marine Autonomy: Research and Applications

Prof. Sanjay Sharma, Associate Professor (Reader) in Intelligent Autonomous Control Systems, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth

May 10, 15:30 - 16:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

artificial intelligence Advanced control systems engineering Multi-sensor data fusion Integrated navigation systems Application of AI techniques to the navigation guidance

Estimation and control of underwater optical wireless communication systems

May 10, 15:00 - 15:30

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Localization Optimization and Optimal Control Distributed Robot Systems Networked Robots

Situational Awareness System for Autonomous Surface Vehicles

Dr. Hyun Taek Choi, Advanced intelligent Ship Research Division, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering

May 10, 14:30 - 15:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Situational Awareness System Multi-object Tracking Deep-learning based detection Sensor Fusion Autonomous Surface Vehicle

Robotic applications in Coral Restoration

May 10, 14:00 - 14:30

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Snorkeling & Diving Trip [by invitation only]

May 10, 08:00 - 12:00

TBD

Free Time

Gala event: Poster session / Exhibition / Contest winners announcement

May 9, 17:00 - 19:00

B3 L2

Poster Sessions

PROTEUS™: A new undersea laboratory serving aquanauts, marine robotics, and sensor networks

Lisa Truitt and Prof. Mark Patterson, Proteus Ocean Group and Marine Science Center, Northeastern University

May 9, 16:15 - 16:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Smart Agricultural Robotics for Monitoring Coral Reefs and Plants: A vertical farming perspective

Prof. Rafiq Ahmad, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta

May 9, 15:45 - 16:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Agricultural Automation Computer Vision for Automation Field Robots Industrial Robots Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

Farms of the Future for Saudi Arabia: Lessons from the US Mid-West

Prof. Girish Chowdhary, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; co-founder and CTO, EarthSense, Inc.

May 9, 15:15 - 15:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Optimal Design of Agricultural Walking Robot

Prof. Sayat Ibrayev, Institute of Mechanics and Engineering

May 9, 14:45 - 15:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Mechanism Design of Mobile Robots Agricultural Automation Multilegged Robots Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry Industrial Robots

Predicting when introduction of robotics in agricultural leads to whole-system changes

Clay Thomas Mitchell, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Fall Line Capital

May 9, 14:15 - 14:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Spray drones marginal cost double-cropping option value

Robotic Customized Medicine for Corals

Raquel Peixoto, Associate Professor, Marine Science

May 9, 12:15 - 12:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics

Robotics and Automation in Coral Monitoring and Restoration

Shinkyu Park, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 9, 11:45 - 12:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Manipulation Planning Autonomous Vehicle Navigation planning Scheduling and Coordination

Challenges in Coral Reef Research and Conservation: Robotics and Autonomous Sampling to the Rescue?

Prof. Adrienne M. S. Correa, BioSciences, Rice University

May 9, 11:15 - 11:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

fish microorganism probiotics sampling restoration

From vehicles to teams in maritime operations

Prof. João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Porto University

May 9, 10:45 - 11:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Maritime vehicles; teams; modelling control computation

Harnessing the potential for robotics and automation for restoring the worlds coral reefs

Prof. David Suggett, KAUST Reefscape Restoration initiative (KRRI), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

May 9, 10:15 - 10:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Aerial Robotics Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Agricultural Automation Factory Automation

Semi-autonomous systems enable advances in Earth Observation

Matthew McCabe, Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

May 9, 09:30 - 10:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Agricultural Automation Field Robots Mapping Sensor Fusion Object detection segmentation

Flying LoRA IoT Gateway for Agricultural Applications

Prof. Samsuzana Abd Aziz, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia

May 9, 09:00 - 09:30

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

UAV LoRAWAN IoT flying getaway smart agriculture

New Zealand Robotics, Automation and Sensing (NZRAS) Roadmap and Horticulture Robotics

Dr. Shen Hin Lim, School of Engineering, University of Waikato

May 9, 08:30 - 09:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

horticulture robotics smart end-effectors roadmap robotic field trials

Bioinspired Subsea Robots and Underwater Networks

Dr. Rudolf Bannasch, Managing Director (and co-founder), EvoLogics GmbH

May 8, 18:15 - 18:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Underwater communication and positioning subsea networks smart robots swarm collaboration artificial intelligence

Autonomous marine mapping, current situation and future possibilities

Frank Mallon, Director, Marine and Archaeology, Shamal Technologies

May 8, 17:45 - 18:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Aerial Robotics Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Mapping Search and Rescue Robots

Underwater Robot for Shallow Water Pipeline Inspection & Monitoring

Hassane Trigui, Research & Development Center, Aramco

May 8, 17:15 - 17:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Robotics in Hazardous Fields Field Robots Motion Control of Manipulators

From ROV's to Smart Reefs: CMR's Journey supporting Marine Research

Andres Espinoza, CMR Core Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

May 8, 16:45 - 17:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Object detection Visual Tracking

Deep benthic environments: an endless (but stimulating) challenge for marine robotics

Dr. Fabio Marchese, Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

May 8, 16:00 - 16:30

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Field Robots Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Mapping

Scaling up reef ecosystem monitoring using underwater robots

Dr. Yogesh Girdhar, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

May 8, 15:30 - 16:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

machine learning animal tracking substrate characterization

Remanent Imaging, a novel concept for imaging aquatic organisms

Dr. Pierre R. Martineau, founder and CEO, Martineau & Associates, Inc.

May 8, 15:00 - 15:30

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Neuromorphic Computing Architectures for Robot Vision in Marine Harsh Environments

Prof. Jorge Dias, Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems, Khalifa University

May 8, 14:30 - 15:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction Visual Servoing Sensor-based Control

At the Limits of the Red Sea - challenges of deep marine sciences

Prof. Froukje M. van der Zwan, Physical Science and Engineering, Earth Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

May 8, 14:00 - 14:30

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Field Robots Marine Robotics

Exploring the Blue Frontier with Cooperative Marine Robots

Prof. Antonio M. Pascoal, Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), IST / University of Lisbon

May 8, 12:00 - 12:30

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Networked Robots Field Robots Formal Methods for Robotics Telerobotics and Teleoperation

Developing Marine Robotics for the Western Indian Ocean - Needs, designs and applications

Prof. Michael Roberts, UK-SA Bilateral Research Chair: Ocean Science & Marine Food Security, Nelson Mandela University and University of Southampton

May 8, 11:30 - 12:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Field Robots Calibration and Identification

Intelligent swarm underwater robotics for coastal and shallow water applications

Prof. Mohd Rizal Bin Arshad, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)

May 8, 11:00 - 11:30

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Underwater robotics Swarm Robots intelligent systems Robust Environment

Frontiers in Marine Research Robotics

Burton Jones, Professor, Marine Science

May 8, 10:30 - 11:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Collision Avoidance Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Distributed Robot Systems Networked Robots

The future of coral reef monitoring

Michael Berumen, Professor, Marine Science

May 8, 09:45 - 10:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Mapping SLAM Computer Vision for Automation Distributed Robot Systems

Autonomous platform systems for underwater exploration: Light for the sea, adventures for the robots!

Prof. Toshihiro Maki, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

May 8, 09:15 - 09:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Underwater robotics ASV Navigation Observation

KAUST Reefscape Restoration Initiative

Dr. Maram Abadi, KAUST Reefscape Restoration Initiative, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

May 8, 08:45 - 09:15

B18 Fellowship Hall

Featured Sessions

Marine Robotics Visual Tracking Biologically-inspired Robots Virtual Reality and Interfaces Computer Vision for Automation

Opening Remarks - Professor Eric Feron

Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 8, 08:30 - 08:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Opening Remarks - Professor Gianluca Setti

Gianluca Setti, Dean, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

May 8, 08:30 - 08:45

B18 Fellowship Hall

Feb 27 - Mar 6, 2022

Prof. Feron: Modular drones: Where geometry meets Flight

Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mar 2, 17:45 - 18:15

B19 H1

Featured Sessions

Abdel-Aal: Using Drones and Autonomous Vehicles for Delivery - Practical Insights from KAUST Living Lab

Mohamed Abdel-Aal, Director, KAUST Smart, KSA

Mar 2, 17:15 - 17:45

B19 H1

Featured Sessions

Alabdulkarim: Industrial Robot Applications: from Challenges to Safety

Arwa M Alabdulkarim, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, KSA

Mar 2, 16:45 - 17:15

B19 H1

Featured Sessions

Prof. Alberto Q. Li: Towards Resilient Low-Cost Robot Teams for Autonomous Aquatic Exploration

Prof. Alberto Quattrini Li, Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA

Mar 2, 16:00 - 16:30

B19 H1

Featured Sessions

Prof. de Sousa: Maritime operations with multi-domain robotic vehicles: current trends and future developments

Prof. João Borges de Sousa, Porto University, Portugal

Mar 2, 15:30 - 16:00

B19 H1

Featured Sessions

Dr. Kartci: Agile Control of Underwater Robots

Aslihan Kartci, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mar 2, 15:00 - 15:30

B19 H1

Featured Sessions

Prof. Pettersen: Bioinspiration gives snake robots moving on land and exploring the oceans

Prof. Kristin Y. Pettersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Mar 2, 14:30 - 15:00

B19 H1

Featured Sessions

Campbell: Using drones to monitor Algae patches on reefs in the Red Sea

Colleen Campbell, Red Sea Research Center, KAUST

Mar 2, 14:00 - 14:30

B19 H1

Featured Sessions

Noofa Hammad: TwinPrint: A Dual-Arm Robotic System for 3D Biofabrication

Noofa Hammad, Laboratory for Nanomedicine, KAUST, KSA

Mar 1, 17:00 - 19:00

KAUST Library

Poster Sessions

Yousef Khojah: Digitally-Assisted Analog Wireless Communication System Using Software-Defined Radio

Mar 1, 17:00 - 19:00

KAUST Library

Poster Sessions