To ensure that maritime infrastructure no longer has to be repaired exclusively by professional industrial divers, a research consortium led by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has developed an
To ensure that maritime infrastructure no longer has to be repaired exclusively by professional industrial divers, a research consortium led by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has developed an underwater welding robot. With artificial intelligence (AI), sensor technology, and an underwater robotic arm, the system will enable autonomous welding.
Until now, underwater welding, such as repairs to port facilities, offshore structures, and other metal structures, has been carried out manually. However, demand far exceeds the number of skilled workers available. This is where the MARIOW (Maritime AI-Guided & Remote Operated Welding) project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE), comes in: For the first time, the partners have developed a robotic system that can perform underwater welding work largely autonomously. In the future, it will relieve divers of physically demanding and risky tasks while producing more precise, uniform weld seams even under difficult visibility conditions.
In addition to the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center in Bremen, the project consortium included the Institute for Materials and Process Technology and the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems at TH Köln, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, AMT GmbH, and Unterwasserkrause – Mutzeck GmbH.
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