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Portuguese robotics in Brazilian waters

Portuguese robotics in Brazilian waters

INESC Porto, through the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Group (ROBIS), will participate in an ambitious project in Brazil, in a partnership with a Federal University in the state of Minas Gerais (UFJF).

The aim is to develop an autonomous system with underwater vehicles capable of communicating with the outside, which will be used to monitor the submerged organs of dams and to control reservoir silt. For that, Portuguese technology related to underwater vehicles and surface monitoring will be combined with the Brazilian capacities on coordination and communications, thus offering an original solution, which received a very positive assessment from the panel for Research and Development (R&D) of ANEEL, the regulatory agency for the electricity sector in Brazil.

The Portuguese team of ROBIS is led by António Paulo Moreira and Aníbal Matos, with the cooperation of Laboratory of Autonomous Systems of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia (ISEP)/Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), led by Eduardo Silva. UNJF team is led by Leonardo de Mello Honório. This is the first time that this team and INESC Porto collaborate in this domain of robotics.

The project is for the company INVESTCO, which manages the Lajeado hydro power plant and where EDP is prominently present. The dam of Lajeado is in the River Tocantins with an installed power of 900 MW, which means that alone it represents 1/10 of the maximum annual power consumed in Portugal. Tocantins is the second largest river in Brasil and it flows directly into the Amazon delta.