{"id":20415,"date":"2013-10-17T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=20415"},"modified":"2021-11-16T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T19:56:40","slug":"robotic-vessel-helps-in-times-of-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/17\/robotic-vessel-helps-in-times-of-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic vessel helps in times of disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UwEiQKxUoV4\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One day soon, technology developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> researchers and students, may be in harbors and ports all over the world providing daily security and surveillance, along with life saving inspections after natural disasters or terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is an unmanned port security vessel. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a system that can go in as a robot, keep people at a safe distance, and be able to tell you where it is safe to operate and where it is not safe to operate,&rdquo; said <strong>Margo Edwards<\/strong>, director of Department of Homeland Security National <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cimes.hawaii.edu\/\">Center for Island, Maritime and Extreme Environmental Security<\/a>, also known as <abbr>CIMES<\/abbr>, which is based out of <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It uses sonar, chemical sensors and infrared cameras,&rdquo; explains <strong>Brian Bingham<\/strong>, an assistant professor at the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a>. &ldquo;And it surveys autonomously, in an unmanned fashion, it surveys the harbors.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Port-story.jpg\" alt=\"UH unmanned port security vessel\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Port-story.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Port-story-260x183.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The six-foot long, four and half-foot wide, 160-pound robotic platform also has a high-resolution camera and real time video. It can be deployed rapidly and operated from miles away while providing critical, up-to-the-second information to first responders for maritime security. <\/p>\n<p>The idea came from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> based Coast Guard units sent to Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They got to the muddy Mississippi and they couldn&#8217;t see what was going on underneath the water,&rdquo; said Edwards. &ldquo;So they came back to us and said, can you develop some sort of robot that would be able to help us with these kinds of situations.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The first prototype was built by researchers and students from the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s College of Engineering and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It leverages a lot of what the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> is good at,&rdquo; said Bingham. &ldquo;And you know being an island and having, you know, our ports are very important so we feel it is really relevant to the state and what we do at the university.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Including giving students real world opportunities, like working on this important project. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Having them be a part of this industry and be a part of it in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is what I like about it,&rdquo; said Bingham. <\/p>\n<p>The project took a major step towards becoming a commercial reality in the fall of 2013 when <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> entered into an agreement with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battelle.org\/\">Battelle<\/a>, the largest non-profit research organization in the world. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The big thing that Battelle can do with this is that we can take and use our engineering and commercial expertise to transition this technology from the lab and into the field,&rdquo; said Haskell Jac Fought of Battelle&#8217;s maritime systems division. <\/p>\n<p>A key player from the start has been <abbr>CIMES<\/abbr>, which considers the Battelle partnership to be critical in more ways than one. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&#8217;re helping us to be able to establish our own workforce in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> by telling us what it is we need to train the young people coming up to able to do to build this and market it,&rdquo; said Edwards. <\/p>\n<p>The money that could potentially come back to <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> for related research could fund more technological advances and create more jobs. This project is a great example for the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Innovation Initiative or HI2&#8212;creating jobs by building a billion dollar annual research enterprise in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. <\/p>\n<h2>Additional information<\/h2>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6057\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and Battelle Announce Partnership news release<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology developed by University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> researchers and students may be in harbors and ports all over the world providing daily security and surveillance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[179,1409,92,9],"class_list":["post-20415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20415"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151770,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20415\/revisions\/151770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}