Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2016
Introducing SMIS – Subsea Monitoring via Intelligent Swarms
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.