{"projectrec":{"ProID":4859,"StandardTitle":"Submarine Cultrues Perform Long-term Robotic Exploration of Unconventional Environmental Niches","OrigTitle":null,"Acronym":"subCULTron","AbstractEnglish":"subCULTron aims for achieving long-term autonomy in a learning, self-regulating, self-sustaining underwater society/culture of robots in a high-impact application area: Venice, Italy.\r\n\r\nOur heterogeneous system consists of 3 different agent types:\r\n\r\nOn the sea-ground, artificial mussels are the collective long-term memory of the system, allowing information to stay beyond the runtime of other agents, thus allowing to continue learning from previously learned states. These mussels monitor the natural habitat, including biological agents like algae, bacterial incrustation and fish.\r\n\r\nOn the water surface, artificial lily pads interface with the human society, delivering energy and information influx from ship traffic or satellite data.\r\n\r\nBetween those two layers, artificial fish move/monitor/explore the environment and exchange info with the mussels and lily pads. Artificial mussels are novel class of underwater agents.\r\n\r\nWe aim to push forward the edge of knowledge with novel sensors (electric sense/electro-communication), novel bio-inspired algorithms (underwater hives) and novel energy harvesting in underwater scenarios.\r\n\r\nWe will improve the world’s record for swarm-size in autonomous collective underwater robotics by almost one order of magnitude.\r\n\r\nOur application field is a human- and animal-co-inhabited real-world environment of high impact: Venice canals & lagoon.\r\n\r\nThese habitats are highly dynamic and structured, expected to be reflected by a spatial self-structuring of our mussel population.\r\n\r\nThese sub-populations locally perform memetic or cultural learning algorithms on their specific local data. Thus our cultural evolution algorithms will promote sub-culture development, similar to the human society that does the same above the water level in parallel.\r\n\r\nOverall, we aim for an artificial society underneath the water-surface to the service of a human society above the water.","AbstractOtherLang":null,"DateLastModified":{"date":"2023-05-02 10:09:39.823000","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+00:00"},"ParentProID":null,"BeginYear":2015,"EndYear":2019,"BMonth":4,"EMonth":3,"BeginMonth":"April","EndMonth":"March","OrigTitleLangCode":null,"OrigTitleLangID":null,"OrigTitleLangNL":null,"OrigTitleLang":null,"OtherAbstractLangCode":null,"OtherAbstractLangID":null,"OtherAbstractLang":null,"OtherAbstractLangNL":null,"Progress":"Completed","ProgressNL":"Afgelopen","PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"ND":"2018-02-26","UD":"2019-04-01","DMPFlag":0,"Budget":null,"BudgetCurrency":"EUR"},"parent":null,"persons":null,"projects":null,"events":null,"datasets":null,"institutes":[{"instituterec":{"Acronym":"USE","ProPartID":16425,"PublicFlag":1,"OrigNameLangCode":"en","OrigNameLangID":15,"FullOrigName":"Université Libre de Bruxelles; Faculty of Sciences; Department of Biology of Organisms; Unit of Social Ecology","Line1":"Ecologie Sociale - CP 231","Line2":"Campus Plaine, Boulevard du Triomphe","Line3":"Batiment NO, niveau 5 (Building NO level 5)","Line4":"1050 Bruxelles","InsID":13136,"FullStandardName":"Université Libre de Bruxelles; Faculté des Sciences; Département de Biologie des Organismes; Ecologie sociale","Role":null,"RoleID":null,"EncAddress":"Ecologie Sociale - CP 231, Campus Plaine, Boulevard du Triomphe, Batiment NO, niveau 5 (Building NO level 5), 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium"},"parent":null,"institutes":null,"references":null,"conferences":null,"datasets":null,"persons":[],"pastpers":null,"subpers":null,"projects":null,"urls":null,"pictures":null,"published":null,"affrefs":null,"collections":null,"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"nXtins":null,"previns":null,"spcols":null,"resmessage":"no id specified","complete":0,"participantrec":null,"peerrevs":null,"urlmaps":null}],"refs":null,"urls":[{"URL":"www.subcultron.eu/","externalID":null,"URLTypeCode":null,"URLType":"Project home page","URLTypID":9}],"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"funderids":null,"othtermsFRIS":null,"pictures":[],"spcols":null,"resmessage":"","complete":1}