The PLOME project has tested new technologies that will allow the deployment of stations and vehicles to monitor the marine environment and provide real-time data. The experiments have been conducted along the Catalan coast at depths of up to 350 meters. The project is led by the University of Girona, with participation from the UPC, […]
Category: Announcements
NEW PRODUCT: SoundTiles, obtain your FLS maps in a matter of minutes
We are pleased to announce the launching of SoundTiles, a stand-alone software solution for automatic generation of underwater acoustic mosaics from forward-looking sonar (FLS) images. The software allows to process a set of sonar images, finding the correct alignment between them and blending them in one single informative mosaic. The generated mosaic provides an overview […]
Back on track!
We’re pleased to announce that our workshop team has been able to restart the activity in normality, for sure, our employees follow all the safety regulations that this pandemic has imposed but it is still nice to say that WE ARE BACK! =) It has been almost 2 months with the offices completely closed, an […]
COVID 19 communicate
Considering the exceptionalism of the situation lived in our country due to COVID 19 proliferation, IQUA robotics decided to close its offices from last Friday the 13th of March 2020 until new orders. The team is currently working safely from home so, please feel free to contact any of our staff members by email. Let […]
First scientific results of KAIST team with its SPARUS II AUV
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), based in Daejeon (Korea), has chosen SPARUS II AUV to be its research platform. The Intelligent Robotic Autonomy and Perception (IRAP) Lab at KAIST, leaded by Dr. Ayoung Kim, focuses on robotics problems in civil and environmental engineering applications. Their main research interest and topics include perception-based environment […]
We participate in the H2020 Eurofleets Plus infrastructure project
EUROFLEETS+ is an H2020 project funded under the Infrastructures initiative, coordinated by the Marine Institute that brings together a significant group of key marine research actors (in particular research vessel operators) in Europe, North America and Oceania – 42 marine institutes, universities, foundations and SMEs from 24 countries (full list). The EUROFLEETS+ project will facilitate open free […]
IQUA robotics develops a dedicated payload for SPARUS II integrating NORBIT WBMS-FLS
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC), the United Kingdom’s centre of excellence for oceanographic sciences, works with SPARUS II as one of their software-testing platforms. One of the main features of IQUA’s platforms is that they have an open conception, both in terms of hardware (reconfigurable) and software (using ROS operating system). These characteristics brought the […]
IQUA Robotics delivers a SPARUS II AUV to the Department of Marine Technologies, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences (University of Haifa)
IQUA Robotics started its journey as a University of Girona start up back in October 2016, after 10 years of applied research on marine robotics and applications at CIRS – Underwater Vision and Robotics Lab. On July 2017, the company delivered its first unit of SPARUS II AUV to its final customer, the Department of […]