MASK - Marine Robots for better Sea Knowledge awareness


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Bedekovčina High School visits FER

MASK project partner Bedekovčina High School visited LABUST, FER on 21st March 2023. The students had to opportunity to learn more about LABUST projects during a presentation by Assistant Professor Đula Nađ. After, they had the opportunity of driving different types of robots in LABUST pool, both surface vehicles and ROVs. The students considered it a fun activity and are looking forward to the more challenging task of remoting control the same ROVs, an activity forecast in the Erasmus+ MASK project. The remote control of ROVs will act as preparation to the trials at sea in May in Baška, that will take place during the 16th Baška GNSS Conference, organized by the MASK project partner University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies.

Author: Fausto Miguel Pascoal Ferreira
Visit to testing site

On the 1st of February, Project Coordinator Dr. Fausto Ferreira from FER, University of Zagreb and Associate Professor Lovro Maglić from the Center for Marine Technologies, Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka visited Baška, Croatia to prepare the first experimental trials at sea to take place between 16th and 18th of May 2023. The testing site was visited and logistics for the deployment at sea were discussed. Moreover, a meeting with the hotel where the participants will be accomodated and theoretical lectures will take place was held to discuss the program and its conjunction with the 16th Baška GNSS Conference.

Author: Fausto Miguel Pascoal Ferreira

The Marine Robotics for better Sea Knowledge (MASK) project has started officially on the 1st November 2022. The MASK project focuses on the teaching, learning, and training of late high school students and their teachers in the area of marine robotics and artificial intelligence applied to environmental monitoring and protection and giving special attention to the possibilities introduced by remote access to infrastructures (telerobotics). Since the start, 6 lectures with the students and one session with the teachers took place. The students are very interested and eager to learn and experiment with robots. In March 2023, they will have the first opportunity to teleoperate marine robots from their schools and after a few sessions of remote testing, they will have the possibility of testing the robots at sea in May 2023 in Baška, Croatia during the 16th Baška GNSS Conference.

Author: Fausto Miguel Pascoal Ferreira