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BUGWRIGHT2 - Autonomous Robotic Inspection and Maintenance on Ship Hulls and Storage Tanks

H2020 GA 871260 (January 2020 - March 2024)

The objective of BUGWRIGHT2 is to bridge the gap between the current and desired capabilities of ship inspection and service robots by developing and demonstrating an adaptable autonomous robotic solution for servicing ship outer hulls. By combining the survey capabilities of autonomous Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) and small Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), with teams of magnetic-wheeled crawlers operating directly on the surface of the structure, the project inspection and cleaning system will be able to seamlessly merge the acquisition of a global overview of the structure with performing a detailed multi-robot visual and acoustic inspection of the structure, detecting corrosion patches or cleaning the surface as necessary – all of this with minimal user intervention. The detailed information provided will be integrated into a real-time visualization and decision-support user-interface taking advantage of virtual reality technologies. Although ships are the targetted application, BUGWRIGHT2 technology may be easily adapted to different structures assembled out of metal plates, and in particular to storage tanks, our secondary application domain.

Videos and Audios (past projects included)

• MINOAS final video [FLV, 23.42 MB]
• MINOAS Euronews documentary - report and video [English] [Spanish] [FLV, 9.71 MB]
• Local news short TV documentary [part 1, MP4, 12.5 MB] [part 2, MP4, 17.2 MB] - IB3 La mirada
• Local news short TV documentary [IB3 TV (excerpt), MP4, 37.6 MB] [IB3 TV YouTube channel, MP4, 18.7 MB]
• UIB aerial platform, specific videos (2D laser scanner for navigation, AscTec Pelican platform):
  • Inspection in a cargo hold onboard a bulk carrier (Gdansk shipyard) [MP4, 38.8 MB]
  • Summary video (Gdansk shipyard) [MP4, 101 MB]
• UIB aerial platform, specific videos (2D laser scanner for navigation, DJI Matrice 100 platform):
  • Autonomous sweeping flights onboard a bulk carrier [MP4, 48.5 MB]
  • Semi-autonomous flights in diverse environments (flight assisted by control achitecture) [MP4, 114 MB]
  • Platform testing in a sport facility (autonomous capabilities; ARUCO markers for position estimation evaluation) [MP4, 161 MB]
• UIB aerial platform, specific videos (3D laser scanner for navigation, DJI Matrice 100 platform):
  • Autonomous sweeping flight in front of mock-up (Athens, Perama Shipyard) [MP4, 64.4 MB]
  • Autonomous vertical inspection in front of mock-up (Athens, Perama Shipyard) [MP4, 54.7 MB]
  • Autonomous flights at the Biology Station (Norway) [MP4, 21.8 MB]
  • Autonomous sweeping flights in front of an offshore platform (Norway) [MP4, 12.6 MB]
  • Sweeping flight in the Drone Hall (Klagenfurt University, Austria) [MP4, 52.7 MB]
  • Flight in the Drone Hall with lights off (Klagenfurt University, Austria) [MP4, 29.2 MB]
  • Summary of inspection capabilities in front of a real vessel (Naval Base, Lisbon field trials, Portugal) [MP4, 256 MB]

Publications