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SHOAL, the pan-European ICT project, part funded by the EU, has developed and delivered intelligent robotic fish capable of working together to detect and identify pollution in ports and other aquatic areas.
Artificial Intelligence has been developed and introduced to enable the fish to manage multiple problems including avoiding obstacles, knowing where to monitor pollution, finding the source of a pollution, maintaining communication distance from the other fish and returning to be recharged. Each individual robotic fish has an array of sensors and external information that will allow it to navigate the environment.
The fish can map where it is, where it needs to go, what samples it has taken and where from and what the chemical composition of the samples are, as well as communicating all of this back through shallow water to a base station, the other fish and the user interface.
Significantly, the robotic fish have been developed to blend into the marine environment in such a way that marine life is neither disrupted nor impacted in any negative way by their presence, but carries on naturally.
SHOAL is a consortium of 6 European organisations including: BMT Group – the project leaders and responsible for Artificial Intelligence; the University of Essex responsible for Robotic Development; the Tyndall National Institute responsible for the Chemical Sensors; the University of Strathclyde responsible for Hydrodynamic Research; Thales Safare responsible for the Communication Network and the Port Authority of Gijon – the testing port
Learn more at http://www.roboshoal.com/
