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About
We promote a market-pull model in R&D activities, focused on the challenges of the oceans and deep waters, with a view to fostering a more sustainable Blue Economy. These activities lead to the development of innovative robotic solutions capable of operating in complex environments and performing multiple tasks, such as data collection, monitoring, mapping, surveillance, and intervention. These solutions are multidisciplinary and cover both established industries—such as aquaculture, fisheries, and ports—and emerging ones, including autonomous ships, deep-sea mining, and offshore renewable energy.
Challenges
Our main challenge is to bring together institutions, companies, and R&D&I associations to increase synergies and critical mass, thereby addressing the current challenges related to the Blue Economy. We aim to create a Network of Excellence in Ocean Engineering, capable of driving the industries that will play a leading role at the international level.
Value Proposition
The sea and the oceans are increasingly explored as strategic domains across multiple dimensions: economic, political and military, social, and environmental. We are a world-leading institution, capable of empowering the Blue Economy through sustainable approaches to the exploration of both living and non-living ocean resources. We aim to create and strengthen new services and ecosystems in areas such as ocean health maintenance activities, by contributing to the monitoring of biogeochemical variables, oil spill mitigation, among others.
Areas
Living Resources
Includes activity sectors such as aquaculture, fisheries, marine biotechnology, food processing, and stock forecasting and monitoring.
Non-living Resources
Includes sectors such as ocean renewable energy or offshore wind energy.
Services
Includes high-tech maritime products and services, maritime business services, shipbuilding and manufacturing, R&D and education related to ocean topics, maritime safety and surveillance, and port services.
Competences
Broadband communications
Offshore renewable energy and multiple energy vectors
Robotic platforms
Underwater positioning and navigation algorithms
Partners
We carry out socially relevant research activities with our associates. We have excellent partnerships with multidisciplinary teams
Services
We support the market with our scientific and technological expertise across several areas:
- Innovation and development projects
- Consultancy and testing services
- Long-term Framework Agreements
- Training and capacity building
- Technology transfer and entrepreneurship
Technologies
MARESye
MARESye is an innovative hybrid visual imaging system that provides dense and accurate 3D information in harsh and turbid (marine snow) underwater environments.
CDR Sensing
CRD Sensing enables remote sensing using commercial equipment such as the Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR), further enabling a more efficient, compact and easy handling sensing system.
Projects
Research Infrastructures
CommsLab - Communications Laboratory
We focus on disseminating large volumes of data, securely and rapidly. At CommsLab, we explore advanced mobile communication technologies across optics, electronics, and radio. We research, prototype, and test 5G, 6G, and Wi-Fi solutions to connect people, machines, and devices in an efficient, reliable, and intelligent way, ensuring that information sharing between these agents keeps up with the digital transformation. Location: INESC TEC headquarters
Robotics Lab - Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory
We develop robots and autonomous systems for extreme environments, from the deep sea to flooded mines. Our solutions collect data, build maps, and carry out inspection and surveillance operations with precision, contributing to scientific, industrial, and environmental monitoring missions. Location: Porto School of Engineering (ISEP) and Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP).
MASSIVE
MASSIVE (Multimodal Acknowledgeable multiSenSory Immersive Virtual Environments) is an INESC TEC research infrastructure dedicated to research and development of multisensory virtual reality and immersive experiences. Focused on the relationship between technology and human performance, it fosters scientific and technological innovation, advanced training, and interdisciplinary collaboration, contributing to knowledge advancement and the creation of solutions with positive social impact. Location: INESC TEC site at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD).
