AI to enable autonomous underwater robots to maintain offshore wind farms

Monday 11 Nov 2024
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Maintaining offshore wind turbines could be greatly improved by UNITE, a project developing AI and control systems that allow underwater robots to operate autonomously in turbulent seas.

The technology is currently undergoing trials as part of UNITE (Underwater Intervention for Offshore Renewable Energies), an EPSRC Prosperity Partnership programme led by Heriot-Watt University in collaboration with Imperial College London, geo-data specialist Fugro and underwater software developer Frontier Robotics, and supported by the National Robotarium, the UK’s centre for robotics and AI.

Read more in The Engineer here