The digital twin paradigm in underwater operations.
The underwater environment is one of the most challenging domains on Earth, where failures pose high risks and significant costs to both technology and people. So, it is fundamental to predict the behaviour of mechatronic systems through simulations. But how do underwater robotic simulators (URS) work and allow researchers and engineers to safely develop and evaluate underwater systems?
On his LinkedIn profile, engineer David Scaradozzi from the Department of Information Engineering at the Università Politecnica delle Marche writes about an interesting departmental study that has just been published on the Digital Twin paradigm. Digital twins allow the monitoring, simulation, and optimisation of underwater robots in real time. The article critically examines the differences between the various simulators, providing precious hints and exploring practical applications.
So, how do underwater robots work? What’s the use of a fish-shaped robot? Are there practical applications that can be used in classrooms? The showcase area at RomeCup 2024 hosted the demos presented by ANcybernetics, an academic spin-off of the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
Here is a short video with Giacomo Fiara, a master’s student in management engineering at UNIVIPM and co-founder of ANcybernetics, on the didactic activities of the lab to promote environmental awareness through marine robotics.
The MareBOT Creative Contest
The Università Politecnica delle Marche, in collaboration with ISME (Interuniversity Centre of Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment), Talent, and the Fondazione Mondo Digitale launched the MareBOT Contest at RomeCup 2019 event (April 2-5, 2019) to encourage the excellence and protagonism of Italian schools and students in the marine robotics ICT design sector. The category will also be held at RomeCup 2025
