The workshop Navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles organised by the SUMARE project took place in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France on the 13th December 2000, in the installations of the Observatoire Océanographique de Villefranche-sur-Mer.

The workshop from 9:00 to 18:00 (see programme) consisted of a series of technical presentations, followed by at sea demonstrations of work in progress in the project, with the autonomous underwater vehicle MAUVE. A final round-table concluded the workshop.

PROGRAMME

• 09:00 João Rendas, I3S, France: Large Scale Navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Based on Perception

• 9:30 Carlos Silvestre, IST, Portugal, Robust Control of Underwater Vehicles

• 10:00 H. Kermorgant, ECA, France, Title to be announced

• Coffee break

• 11:00 Stefan Rolfes, I3S, France, Navigating with spatial statistics

• 11:30 João Rendas, I3S, France, Applications: Demining and Oceanographic Survey - the added value of perception-based systems

• Lunch

• 14:00-16:00 At-sea demonstrations with Mauve, trajectory referred & sensor-based navigation

• Coffee Break

• 16:30 Alain Norro, MUMM, Belgium, Results of the 3-dimensional hydrodynamic model simulation around the Kwintebank

• 17:00 Malcom Thomson, HWU, Scotland (UK), Predicting the distribution of maerl

• 17:30 Round-Table & Conclusions

• 20:00 Workshop Dinner.