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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

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Maritime vehicles; teams; modelling control computation

Abstract “In his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil proposed "The Law of Accelerating Returns", according to which the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including but not limited to the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially”. Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Viking, 1999, Currently, underwater, surface, aerial, and space robotic vehicles are already providing unprecedented capabilities with a significant impact in maritime operations. But this is just the beginning. Initial progress in the field of uncrewed maritime