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C2I 2021: Wildcard Shortlist

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Our Wildcard shortlist featured a groundbreaking UAV for challenging environments, a new approach for laying foundational engineering maths, and a new x-ray technique that could transform medical imaging. 

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Project: A2I2

Partners: Forth Engineering, Rovco, D-RisQ, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Thales UK and The University of Manchester

The Autonomous Aquatic Inspection and Intervention (A2I2) project’s goal was to develop underwater autonomous vehicles to operate in hazardous environments, with an initial focus on waste storage ponds at nuclear sites.

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A2I2 is an intelligent, non-tethered, underwater autonomous survey robot fitted with sonar technology to detect and avoid obstacles. During drop trials held at Forth’s Deep Recovery Facility at Maryport, Cumbria in March 2021, the robot successfully moved autonomously through the pond, avoided collisions, located items on the pond floor and relayed images which could be viewed and analysed in real-time on dry land.

Alongside meeting the robotics challenges, Forth has also developed an enabling Lilypad technology that provides launch and recovery, recharging and high bandwidth communications for the ROV.

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