Recent Submissions

  • Performance of WAVY ocean Lagrangian drifters for surface characterization of ocean dynamic structures 

    Toma, Daniel; Carandell Widmer, Matias; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
    Conference report
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    Low-cost drifters can measure ocean surface waves thanks to global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) and new motion-sensor packages. Drifting along or across current gradients allows for unique in-situ wave–current ...
  • A reinforcement learning path planning approach for range-only underwater target localization with autonomous vehicles 

    Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; Martín Muñoz, Mario; Katija, Kakani; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus; Navarro Bernabé, Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Underwater target localization using range-only and single-beacon (ROSB) techniques with autonomous vehicles has been used recently to improve the limitations of more complex methods, such as long baseline and ultra-short ...
  • Generation WAVY: a new breed of surface drifters for all ocean domains 

    da Silva, António Jorge; Sousa, Alexandre; Pedrera, Félix; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Pinto, José P.; Oliveira, M.; Gonçalves, Pedro; de Saint Léger, Philippe; Chumbinho, Rogério (Instituto Hidrográfico, 2022)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    A new family of multi-purpose, multi-sensor, small sized, easy-to-handle, low-cost, spherical surface drifters is about to appear in the market, with its first three models. The WAVY Ocean is a current, wave and near-surface ...
  • A new nonlinear compliant mechanism for harvesting energy from ocean waves 

    Liang, Haitong; Carandell Widmer, Matias; Olszewski, Oskar Z.; Hao, Guangbo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Traditonal linear oscillators, such as cantilevers or pendulums, are only sensitive to specific resonant frequencies. They have then very narrow frequency bandwidths when harvesting energy from ocean waves. In order to ...
  • MELOA Catalogue and GeoPortal: A modern approach for open access and visualization of in situ drifter data 

    Pedrera, Félix; Andrade, João; Matos, João; Martínez Padró, Enoc; Rojas, José Joaquín; Gonçalves, Pedro; Lucas, Marc; Esteves, Rita; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Chumbinho, Rogério (2021)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The MELOA H2020 project proposes to develop a low-cost, easy-to-handle, wave resilient, multi-purpose, multi-sensor, extra light surface drifter for use in all water environments: The WAVY drifters. The data products ...
  • MELOA catalogue, geoportal and data services: a modern approach for a marine in-situ measurements spatial data infrastructure and data services 

    Pedrera, Félix; Andrade, João; Matos, João; Martínez Padró, Enoc; Rocha, Artur; Rojas, José Joaquín; Gonçalves, Pedro; Lucas, Marc; Esteves, Rita; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Chumbinho, Rogério (2021)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The MELOA project (https://www.ec-meloa.eu/) proposes to develop a low-cost, easy-to-handle, wave resilient, multi-purpose, multi-sensor, extra light surface drifter for use in all water environments, ranging from deep-sea ...
  • In-situ real-time underwater noise dataflow: from OBSEA to EMODnet 

    Martínez Padró, Enoc; Toma, Daniel; Novellino, Antonio; Alba, Marco; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del (2021)
    Conference report
    Open Access
  • MINKE’s transnational and virtual access 

    Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Ntoumas, Manolis; Piera, Jaume (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
    Conference report
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    MINKE (Metrology for Integrated marine maNagement and Knowledge-transfer nEtwork) is an european project funded under Call H2020-INFRAIA-2018-2020 and Topic INFRAIA-02-2020 Research and Innovation action. MINKE project ...
  • Contributions to the pendulum-type wave energy converter system for oceanic drifter applications 

    Carandell Widmer, Matias; Toma, Daniel; Gasulla Forner, Manuel; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del (2021)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Lagrangian Drifters are autonomous floating passive devices that provide oceanographic surface data. They are low-cost, versatile and easy-deployable marine instrumentation used in climate research. One of the main challenges ...
  • Nonlinear dynamic analysis of pendulum-type Wave Energy Converter for low-power marine monitoring applications 

    Carandell Widmer, Matias; Toma, Daniel; Alevras, Panagiotis; Gasulla Forner, Manuel; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Barjau Condomines, Ana (European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), 2021)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    A model for a double pendulum Wave Energy Converter (WEC) for drifter applications has been developed and validated. The WEC is composed by an articulated arm, a gear train, a flywheel, a one-way bearing and a DC generator. ...
  • Miniaturised bidirectional acoustic tag to enhance marine animal tracking studies 

    Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; Corregidor, Daniel; López Navarro, Juan Manuel; Martínez Padró, Enoc; Navarro, Joan; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
    Conference report
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    Acoustic underwater tags are key devices to study marine animals and comprehend their patterns, which provide essential behavioural information for applying new conservation policies. At present, all the acoustic tags have ...
  • Analysis and initial design of bidirectional acoustic tag modulation schemes and communication protocol 

    Corregidor, Daniel; Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; López Navarro, Juan Manuel; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus; Navarro, Joan; De Arcas Castro, Guillermo (2021)
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    Acoustic underwater tags are key devices to study marine animals and obtain information regarding their behaviour. This information is essential to increase our knowledge of oceanic species and implement efficient conservation ...

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