Areas that are difficult to access - whether in space or in the deep sea - are the location for the autonomous system to be developed. Graphic: Christoph Waldmann
In order to explore places inaccessible to ships, marine researchers need new technical approaches that use methods of artificial intelligence. Ice-covered seas and lakes, for example, are among the inaccessible places. The goal is to develop completely autonomous systems that can also take samples independently at locations of scientific interest. In a joint project funded by DLR Space Agency (Bonn) and led by Dr. Christoph Waldmann of MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, engineers and scientists are jointly developing an autonomous sampling system to obtain contamination-free samples from lakes and seas covered with ice.
