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Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2016

Introducing SMIS – Subsea Monitoring via Intelligent Swarms

May 2016 | Sven Hoog, Alexander Schormayer, Carl Thiede, Johannes Martin Kurowski, Erik Rentzow, Agnes Schubert, Torsten Jeinsch, Sebastian Ritz, Florin Boeck, Matthias Golz, Sergej Neumann, David Oertel, Joanna J. Waniek, David Kaiser

CONCEPT | The German project SMIS – Subsea Monitoring via Intelligent Swarms – is focused on development of a system for efficient, autonomous monitoring and investigation of large-scale subsea areas using team/ swarm technology. Engineers and scientists are working on an innovative concept based on pressure-neutral underwater vehicles. The following article by Dr Sven Hoog et al. details the project.