3rd Workshop on European Unmanned Maritime Systems New challenges for unmanned maritime systems 29th-30th April 2014 Call for Contributions
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Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: 31st January 2014 Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2014 Registration deadline: 15th April 2014 Presentation submission deadline: 15th April 2014 Workshop dates: 29th and 30th April 2014
Venue: Fórum do Mar/Exponor, Porto, Portugal
Scope and objective The major goal of the workshop is to promote the exchange of information on current and recently completed research and technology work in the area of the Unmanned Maritime Systems program, under EDA, which aims new developments on unmanned maritime systems, and the application of these systems in several domains, both in military and civilian areas. Being complementarity and cooperation a main focus in Europe, it is also a goal to promote this exchange with recent and current 7th Framework Program as well as national projects under this same area.
The workshop is targeted to both researchers and end-users, and constitutes a privileged forum for discussing new ideas, identifying new trends and paradigms, new business opportunities, as well as the establishment of partnerships, namely in the scope of the European Horizon 2020 Programme. The workshop is open to the representatives of industry, research institutes, academia, and government organizations from EDA Member States and Norway. There will be limited number of available places for non-UMS representatives. Registration will be mandatory.
Contributions to the Workshop We therefore invite submissions of abstracts (1000 characters maximum) for technical presentations at the workshop targeting but not limited to the following topics:
- Survey on state of the art unmanned maritime systems - Novel unmanned maritime systems - Novel communications architectures and solutions supporting unmanned maritime systems operations - Systems Integration - Safety and Regulations for European Unmanned Maritime Systems - Standards and interfaces for more interoperable European unmanned maritime systems - Increased Autonomy for AUV´s (mission planning and obstacle avoidance) - Conformal array performance estimation modeling - Network Enabled Cooperation System of Autonomous Vehicles - Signature Response Analysis of Multi-influence Mines - Robust Acoustic Communications in Underwater Networks - Harbour and Base Protection Systems - Submarine coupled 6dof motions including boundary effects
Abstracts submission must be performed online here.
Format of the presentations at the workshop Presentations (20 min including discussion) should be supplied digitally in advance for distribution to attendees. No formal paper is required. Speakers are invited to indicate their interest in the participation by registering here.
Organisers European Defence Agency Portuguese Ministry of National Defence INESC Technology & Science
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto