Broadening Horizons with Inter-disciplinary Science & Engineering

The field of Marine Robotics continues to be small and a niche discipline and relies substantially on other established disciplines especially in Control Science and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. While more recent inroads by Computer Scientists and Roboticists driven by the needs of exploration strategies in Adaptive Sampling are encouraging, the field is still small and impact on society smaller still. Yet the ongoing crises in understanding and mitigating Climate change, coupled with the need to secure sustained exploitation of the ocean living and mineral resources, are making more practitioners think about their contributions to the general society by working with scientists in divergent fields such as Oceanography, Atmospheric sciences, Biology, Geology, and Genetics. Coupled with ongoing advances in sensors, software tools and materials most of which from well outside the field, Marine Robotics is in an exciting period of its transformation.

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Horta, Faial Island, Azores, Portugal