arcticocean.ai
#Arctic Ocean AI | Artificial Intelligence for Arctic Ocean
#Advanced Navigation | AI-based marine navigation systems | AI-Based underwater navigation solutions and robotics technology | Hydrography | Underwater acoustic positioning solutions | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) | Inertial navigation systems (INS) | Sidney, Australia
#picknik.ai | Remote Robot Control
#SEA.AI | Detecting floating objects early | Using thermal and optical cameras to catch also objects escaping conventional systems such as Radar or AIS: Unsignalled crafts or other floating obstacles, e.g., containers, tree trunks, buoys, inflatables, kayaks, persons over board | System computes input from lowlight and thermal cameras, using Machine Vision technology, deep learning capabilities and proprietary database of millions of annotated marine objects | High-resolution lowlight and thermal cameras | Real-time learning of water surface patterns | Searching for anomalies | Distinguishing water from non-water | Comparing anomalies with neural network | Recognize objects by matching combination of filters | Augmented reality video stream combined with map view | Intelligent alarming based on threat level | Detecting persons in water | On-board cameras with integrated image processing | Providing digital understanding of vessel surroundings on water | SEA.AI App on smartphone or tablet
#Canadian Space Division of Canadian Armed Forces | Arctic AI powered ISR
#Royal Canadian Air Force | AI/ML requirements factored into many of the SB-ISR projects
#Advanced Navigation | Navigation systems and robotics technologies
#Wartsila | Marine autonomy solutions
#DTN | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
#AutoMarineSys | Autonmous Marine Systems
#Untether AI | Accelerating AI inference | PCI-Express form factor and power envelope | Over 2 PetaOps per card | Accelerator card | AI chip | Intel backef | Toronto, Canada
#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
#Ommatidia Lidar | Ocean observation | 3D Light Sensor | In-orbit characterization of large deployable reflectors (LDRs) | Channels: 128 parallel | Imaging vibrometry functionality | Target accuracy: 10µm | Measurement range: 0.5-20 m | Measurement accuracy (MPE): 20 + 6 μ/m | Angular range 30 x 360 | Vibrometry sampling frequenvy: 40 kHz | Vibrometry max in-band velocity: 15.5 mm/s | Power consumption: 45W | Battery operation time: 240 min | Interface: Ethernet | Format: CSV / VKT / STL / PLY / TXT | Dimension: 150x228x382 mm | Weight: 7,5 kg | Pointer: ~633 nm | Temperature range: 0/40 ºC | Environmental protection class: IP54 | Eye safety: Class 1M | Raw point clouds: over 1 million points | Calibration: metrology-grade with compensation of thermal and atmospheric effects | ESA
#OndoSense | Radar distance sensor | Sensor software: integrated into control system or used for independent quality monitoring | Object detection | Distance measurement | Position control | Agriculture: reliable height control of the field sprayer | Mining industry | Transport & Logistics | Shipping & Offshore | Mechanical and plant engineering | Metal and steel industry | Energy sector | Harsh industrial environments | Dust & smoke: no influence | Rain & snow: no influence | Radar frequency: 122GHz | Opening angle: ±3° | Measuring range: 0.3 – 40 m | Measuring rate: up to 100Hz | Output rate: up to 10 ms / 100 Hz | Measurement accuracy; up to ±1mm | Measurement precision: ±1mm | Communication protocol: RS485; Profinet, other interfaces via gateway | Switching output: 3x push-pull (PNP/NPN) | Analogue output: Current interface (4 – 20 mA) | Protection class: IP67
#Heliogen | AI-controlled concentrating solar thermal technology | AI, cameras, advanced computer vision software precisely aligni array of small mirrors reflecting and concentrating sunlight on receiver tower | Receiver generates heat which is transferred to thermal energy storage | Providing steam heat up to 300 °C | Cameras installed at top of tower measure color intensity of sky as reflected in mirrors | By comparing intensities as seen from multiple cameras, system calculates mirror orientation and direction of beam, for real-time hyper-accurate tracking | AI technology for continuous micro-adjustments | System automatically adapts to atmospheric conditions | WiFi connects heliostats | Direct Steam Generating Receivers (DSGR) absorb concentrated sunlight and transmit energy to pressurized water within metal tubes | Manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California
#WWF | ArcNet | Arctic blue corridors initiative | Global Arctic Programme
#Norwegian Ocean Observation Laboratory (OCEANLAB / HAVLAB)
#University of Bergen (UiB)| Arctic Research
#Institute of Marine Research (IMR) | Arctic Research
#Norwegian Research Centre AS (NORCE) | Arctic Research
#Norwegian Defense Research Establishment | Arctic Research
#Penn State University | Arctic Research
#National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Annual Arctic health checkup
#University of Colorado Boulder | Atmospheric and oceanic science
#UCLA | Institute of Environment and Sustainability Center for Climate Science
#Royal Canadian Navy | Maritime domain awareness software | AI/ML to detect surface vessel traffic acting unusually
#Aker Arctic | Icebreakers
#Simrad | Marine Chartplotters | Autopilots | Radar | Beam sharpening technology | ZoneTrack | Halo Dangerous Target Alerts | Bird+ Mode
#Mente Marine | Attitude Control System ACS
#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos
#Argo | Collecting information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and a mid water level | Floats (instruments) spend almost all their life below the surface | Observing ocean data related to climate change
#Aqualink | Ocean conservation technology | Autonomous Surface Vehicle(ASV) kit | ROS | Pixhawk | NVIDA Jetson GPU | Solar powered smart buoy
#Seakit International | MaxLimer | Uncrewed surface vessel
#NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Ocean observations from space | The rate of sea level rise is increasing | NASA Sea Level Change science team | CNES | Annual sea level observations and future projections | Climate change is melting Earth ice sheets and glaciers | Measurements of sea surface height
#University of Rome, Italy | Thule High Arctic Atmospheric Observatory in Greenland | Dirigibile Italia Arctic Station run by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in the Svalbard Islands
#World Meteorological Organization | Marine heat waves research
#UK Marine Biological Association | Marine heat waves research
#US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Marine heat waves research
#São Paulo University | Bio-optics oceanography
#Royal Canadian Navy | Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships | Designed to operation ice up to 1m thick | Hull strengthened for operations in the high North | Specialised marine sensors | Operating maritime helicopters at sea | Missions: surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue
#CSC Center for Science, Finland | Arctic research compuring
#Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsink | Marine actinobacteria research in Arctic Sea
#HiLIFE and Biocenter Finland | Marine actinobacteria research in Arctic Sea
#EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC | Arctic Sea research
#NordForsk Nordic University Hub | Arctic Sea research
#Arctic University of Norway | Arctic Sea research
#University of Tromso | Tromso Forskningstiftelse | Arctic Sea research
#Norwegian Polar Institute | Icebreaking research vessel Kronprins Haakon | Arctic Sea research
#Norwegian Institute of Marine Research | Arctic Sea research
#Fincantieri | Polar research vessel manufacturing
#Aker Arctic Technology | Designing and Engineering reliable and efficient ships operating in ice-covered waters | Polar research vessels | Complete development process of a new ship design | Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis (numerical analysis and algorithms to analyze and solve problems involving fluid flows) | Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis for ship structures | Ship propulsion systems | Winterization specifications and solutions
#LookOut | AI vision system | Synthesized data from charts, AIS, computer vision, and cloud fusing it into one 3D augmented reality view | Connects to existing boat display | Mountable camera system to the top of any boat | Lookout App for laptop, phone or tablet | Infrared vision | Night vision sensor | Spotting small vessels, floating debris, buoys, people in water | Blind spot detection | Backup camera | Temperature breaks, bird cluster locations, underwater structures for anglers | Camera streaming over WiFi to phones and tablets on the boat | Over-the-air (OTA) updates | Marine-grade water-proof enclosure | Integrated with satellite compass | National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) communication standard interface | Multifunction Display (MFD) | Multi-core CPU driving augmented reality compute stack | ClearCloud service | NVIDIA RTX GPU for real-time computer vision | DockWa app
#SiLC | Machine Vision solutions with FMCW LiDAR vision | FMCW at the 1550nm wavelength | Eyeonic Vision Sensor platform | Detecting vehicles and various obstacles from long distances | Honda Xcelerator Ventures | Honda Marine
#HEBI Robotics | Robot development platform | Smart robotic actuation hardware and building blocks | Streamlininh the process of developing robots | Space-rated hardware deployed for missions in space | NASA: SBIR
#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine
#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht
#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy
#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard
#BrainChip | Akida Pico | Ultra-low power acceleration co-processor | Enabling development of uber-compact, intelligent devices | Akida2 event-based computing platform | Ultra-low-power (less than a milliwatt) neural processing unit (NPU) | AI accelerator for battery powered, compact intelligent devices (hearing aids, noise-cancelling earbuds, medical equipment) | Event-based co-processor | Intended for voice wake detection, keyword spotting, speech noise reduction, audio enhancement, presence detection, personal voice assistant, automatic doorbell, wearable AI and appliance voice interfaces | Supports power islands for minimal standby power
#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington
#ESA General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) | Arctic Ocean Surveillance precursor (AOS-p) mission | Surveillance of vessels in the Arctic Regions of Norway (NAVAREA XIX) | Tracking unauthorized fishing activities | Assisting in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations | Performing routine surveillance of difficult to monitor areas in Norwegian waters | Buildinging capability in Norway space industry
#Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) | Surveillance of vessels in the Arctic Regions of Norway (NAVAREA XIX) | Investing to space industry
#Norwegian Space Agency | Using artificial intelligence to improve tracking of illegal fishing boats
#EIDEL | Developing instruments and systems for space | Participates development of CCSDS Unified Space Link Protocol