Symposium On Maritime Informatics & Robotics
APOLLON THEATER
09:00-09:30 Registrations
09:30-10:00 Welcome Addresses
10:00-10:20 KEYNOTE SPEECH 1
Innovative Robotic Technologies for the Exploration of Extreme Marine
Environments
Paraskevi Nomikou
Professor, Department of Geology and Geoenvironment of National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
10:20-11:10 Maritime Robotics, Sensors and Applications (e.g. ports, robotic cranes)
Chair: Fausto Ferreira, University of Zagreb
10:20-10:35 Closing the Data Loop: Real-World AUVs Adaptive Sampling for Improved
Ocean Model Predictions
10:50-11:00 Automated Container Vessel Docking: From Anchorage to Dock
11:00-11:10 Detection, Classification and Identification of Objects in Underwater Harsh
Environments Using Machine Learning
11:10-11:25 Coffee Break
11:25-11:45 KEYNOTE SPEECH 2
Automated Freight Vessel Operations
Dr Angelos Amditis
Research and Development Director and Director of the I-SENSE Group, Institute of
Communication & Computer Systems (ICCS)
Chairman, ERTICO-ITS Europe
11:45-13:10 Applications for Marine Systems, Including Autonomous Vehicles
Chair: Renato Mendes, University of Porto
11:45-12:00 3D LiDAR and 1D Radar Distance Determination for Safe Navigation of
Automated Vessels in Lock Basins
Mirjam Bogner, Fynn Pieper, Matthias Steidel, Janusz A. Piotrowski
Institute of Systems Engineering for Future Mobility, German Aerospace Center (DLR),
Oldenburg, Germany
12:00-12:15 A Whole-body UVMS Motion Planning Approach for Underwater Propeller
Cleaning
Raksi Kopo, Spyridon G. Tarantos, Fotis Panetsos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Center for AI & Robotics (CAIR), New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
12:15-12:30 Efficient Autonomous Marine Vessel Navigation with Safe Deep
Reinforcement Learning
12:30-12:45 Enhancing Ship Emission Monitoring: An Autonomous Approach to Emission Mapping Using ArduPilot
12:45 -13:00 Using Monitoring of Maritime Traffic Scenarios in the Validation of Maritime Systems
13:00-13:10 An Educational Perspective on the Aquabots Development Platform for Autonomous Navigation
13:10-13:55 Lunch Break
13:55-16:10 Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Marine Contexts
Chair: Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus
13:55-14:10 A Data-Driven Approach to Port Efficiency and Vessel Scheduling in North America
14:10-14:25 Comparative Study of Ship Motion Prediction Models: Data-Driven
Physics-Based vs Pure Machine Learning
Michail Mathioudakis, Petros Iatropoulos, Theodoros Stouraitis,
Christos Papandreou, Antonis Nikitakis, Stavros Paschalakis,
Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos
DeepSea Technologies Athens, Greece
14:25-14:40 FLP-XR: Future Location Prediction on Extreme Scale Maritime Data in
Real-time
George S. Theodoropoulos, Andreas Patakis, Andreas Tritsarolis, Yannis Theodoridis
Department of Informatics University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
14:40-14:55 ROSAR: An Adversarial Re-Training Framework for Robust Side-Scan Sonar
Object Detection
14:55-15:10 Using LLMs for Analyzing AIS Data
Gaspard Merten, Gilles Dejaegere, Mahmoud Sakr
Data Science and Engineering Lab, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
15:10-15:20 Break
15:20-15:30 Combining AIS data and Spot-Market Fixture Data to Estimate Freight Supply
15:30-15:40 Federated Learning and Trajectory Compression for Enhanced AIS Coverage
15:40-15:50 LitterEye – Automatic Underwater Trash Detection Using YOLOv5
15:50-16:00 Nautilus in Motion: A Demo on Vessel Location Forecasting over Live
16:10-16:25 Coffee Break
16:25-18:10 Joint Session
Chair: Elias Xidias, University of the Aegean
16:25-16:40 Analysis of 3D LiDAR and 1D FMCW Radar Effectiveness for Distance
Estimation in Inland Ports for Remote-Controlled Ship Navigation
Fynn Pieper, Mirjam Bogner, Janusz A. Piotrowski, Matthias Steidel
Institute of Systems Engineering for Future Mobility German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Oldenburg, Germany
16:40-16:55 Head-Worn Augmented Reality for Real-Time Navigation Assistance and Event Forecasting in Maritime Operations
16:55-17:10 Innovative Short-Sea Shipping Logistics
17:20-17:30 A Generalizable Entity-Component-System Architecture for Underwater
ROV Control
Eoghan McIvor, George Sklivanitis, Dimitris A. Pados
Center for Connected Autonomy and AI, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL, USA
17:30-17:40 Medium-Range Radio for Small Sailing Drones Using Integrated UHF
Antennas
Malte Klas, Moritz Dafelmair
Sailing Team Darmstadt e.V., Darmstadt, Germany
17:40-17:50 SMaRCSim: Maritime Robotics Simulation Modules
Mart Kartasev, David Dörner, Özer Özkahraman, Petter Ögren, Ivan Stenius,
John Folkesson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
17:50-18:00 Design of a Marine Environment Buoy Monitoring Platform Based on LoRa
19:30 Welcome Drink & Symposium Dinner
