Project description
Putting maritime robots to the test
Offshore wind energy makes an important contribution to the decarbonisation of our society. As recent wind farms are being installed further away from the coast at deeper locations, they get more complex and the risk of operating and maintaining such offshore assets increases substantially. The EU-funded ATLANTIS project is developing a pioneer pilot infrastructure capable of demonstrating key enabling robotic technologies for the inspection and maintenance of offshore wind farms. A large-scale pilot will be operated and demonstrated by a strong collaboration between the research community and the industrial offshore energy ecosystem. This project intends to accelerate the adoption of robotic-based solutions by end-users, in particular, by highlighting the added-value of robotics to the safety and efficiency of O&M activities.
Objective
Operations and maintenance (O&M) has to be performed for the full operational life of a wind farm, the costs of which constitute to a significant part of the total costs of offshore wind power. The EU and the wind power sector have ambitious aims for cost-reduction to make wind power especially offshore wind power more cost-efficient. With the current technology base O&M costs can account for up to 30 % of the total cost of energy for offshore wind power. A substantial contribution to cost reduction must therefore come through improved and new solutions and technologies. ATLANTIS will address the EU and wind power sectors ambition.
The overall aim of the ATLANTIS project is to establish a pioneer pilot infrastructure capable of demonstrating key enabling robotic technologies for inspection and maintenance of offshore wind farms that will be installed in the Atlantic Ocean.
A large-scale pilot will be operated and demonstrated by a strong collaboration between the research community and the industrial offshore energy ecosystem. The commitment of relevant stakeholders from the maritime robotics and wind power value chain depicted in ATLANTIS project exposes the urgency in guarantee an early access by medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), R&D institutions or energy operators to a pilot infrastructure for validating innovative and technological solutions with high potential to leverage key market sectors and the blue growth.
ATLANTIS will play an important role in connecting the market needs and users expectation to robotic applications from the research, technology developers and system integrators, by accelerating the roll-out of maritime robotic technology to end-users through real-world demonstrations open to all communities. The emphasis of ATLANTIS will be on demonstrating capabilities in a real offshore wind farm.
Dissemination activities enrolled in the ATLANTIS project will convince stakeholders about the advantages of using robotic-based solutions.
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- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering robotics
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H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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IA - Innovation action
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(opens in new window) H2020-ICT-2018-20
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4200 465 PORTO
Portugal
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