Project SeaWatch: Flexible AI Coastal Monitoring

SeaWatch 项目：灵活的人工智能海岸监控

• 批准号: 10024371
• 金额: $ 75.94万
• 依托单位: UAVAID LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10024371
• 关键词: Project; SeaWatch; Flexible; AI; Coastal

Surveillance of the United Kingdom's coastal, maritime environment is more important than ever. As an island nation and trading power, we must protect and secure the seas along our coastline. Fisheries, cargo, Search And Rescue and environmental protection alone combine to provide a significant challenge for available resources. These challenges are mirrored overseas contexts, including the challenging coastal areas of Africa.Project "SeaWatch" will provide a low-cost contribution to maritime surveillance, via an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ("UAV") with a specially-adapted, AI-enabled 3D camera system. UAVAid and Archangel Imaging have combined to produce an innovative system designed with proven technology to deliver a significant uplift in capability and resources to the user. SeaWatch will be able to autonomously monitor vast areas of the sea, only reporting alerts for anomalies that are desired by the user.Using a UAV to search reduces cost, eliminates risk and makes better use of scarce human resources, but it has its own drawback: multiple studies show that one of the main failure mechanisms of using TV camera-based monitoring systems is human error in "spotting" the issue of interest. This project will design, develop and demonstrate a fully-integrated and fully-automatic system, specifically optimised for carrying out coastal maritime searches, using an extended development of an existing UAV platform, developed to operate in the challenging maritime environment, to conduct the physical search, coupled with an extended development of an existing artificial-intelligence based image processing system to identify issues of interest in the images and a new development in rapidly-deployable wireless networks to allow the system to be deployed quickly to any desired location. The system will integrate with AIS databases for vessel cross referencing to support automation of management and enforcement of coastal waters regulations."SeaWatch" comprises an existing, proven UAV, provided by UAVAid, coupled to AI technology in the form of Archangel Imaging's algorithms & Cerebella mission management system, which can control numerous remote sensor systems at once and also their AI-enabled 3D cameras.

对联合王国沿海和海洋环境的监测比以往任何时候都更加重要。作为一个岛国和贸易大国，我们必须保护和保障我国海岸线沿着的海洋。渔业、货运、搜索和救援以及环境保护等联合收割机本身就对现有资源构成了重大挑战。这些挑战反映了海外的情况，包括非洲具有挑战性的沿海地区。“SeaWatch”项目将通过一个自主无人驾驶飞行器（“UAV”）提供低成本的海上监视，该无人驾驶飞行器配备了一个特别适应的、支持人工智能的3D摄像系统。UAVAid和Archangel Imaging联合开发了一个创新系统，该系统采用经过验证的技术设计，为用户提供了显著的能力和资源提升。SeaWatch将能够自主监测广阔的海域，仅报告用户期望的异常警报。使用无人机进行搜索可以降低成本，消除风险，并更好地利用稀缺的人力资源，但它也有自己的缺点：多项研究表明，使用基于电视摄像机的监测系统的主要故障机制之一是在“发现”感兴趣的问题时的人为错误。该项目将设计，开发和演示一个完全集成和全自动的系统，专门用于进行沿海海上搜索，使用现有无人机平台的扩展开发，开发用于在具有挑战性的海洋环境中运行，进行物理搜索，再加上现有人工智能的扩展发展，基于智能的图像处理系统，以识别图像中感兴趣的问题，以及快速部署无线网络的新发展，以允许系统快速部署到任何期望的位置。该系统将与AIS数据库集成，用于船舶相互参照，以支持沿海沃茨法规的管理和执行自动化。“SeaWatch”由UAVAid提供的现有的经过验证的无人机组成，与Archangel Imaging算法和Cerebella使命管理系统形式的人工智能技术相结合，可以同时控制许多远程传感器系统及其支持人工智能的3D相机。