The ATLANTIS project is strategically positioned to accelerate the time-to-market of robotic technologies through several steps. ATLANTIS Test Centre is a dedicated pilot infrastructure that serves as a near-real and real testing scenario for functional validation, significantly reducing the time typically required for de-risking new technologies in offshore settings. Secondly, the project fostered collaboration between diverse stakeholders, such as SMEs, research institutions, and academia, by providing them with access to the ATLANTIS Test Centre and its resources free of charge. This collaboration streamlined the exchange of knowledge, resources, and expertise, expediting the development and refinement of robotic technologies.
The project developed multiple robotic platforms, ranging from underwater to aerial robotics, including, new technology to support the O&M operations through marine robotic platforms. Over than 32 demonstrations were performed during the project. Through these demonstrations the shortening of the time-to-market was achieved (e.g. >50% of development time was reduced for concrete cases). These demonstrations included also tests from external entities. In addition to this, ATLANTIS promoted 5 offshore demonstrations in a real operating scenario from the offshore wind farm.
ATLANTIS project enabled the world’s first demonstration of two heterogeneous robots (RAVEM UAV and NAUTILUS ASV), operating autonomously and simultaneously in a commercial offshore wind farm with floating foundations in the Atlantic Ocean.
The ATLANTIS Test Center makes it possible to validate technologies across the entire range of TRL. The testing can be divided into two different stages: Coastal and Offshore Testbeds. This is aimed towards technologies of lower TRLs, as the testing occurs in a near-real environment. This generates a testing methodology that allows the reduction of time-to-market of new technologies, while keeping costs affordable to start-ups and SMES.
In the context of this project, there was an involvement of at least 78 persons in the workforce: 49 researchers and 29 non-researchers from the R&D institutions, universities, SMES and large companies. More than 50 (media) articles describing ATLANTIS, or its results can already be found in news or journals. The project achieved 7 conference papers, 22 scientific articles published in international journals, 7 press-releases, 4 workshops organized, 9 flyers for technology description, 14 videos describing the technologies and the ATLANTIS Test Centre, >30 participation in conferences and fairs.
