2nd RAMI Field Campaign

for Marine Robots

The 2nd RAMI Marine Robots competition was held at the NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) in La Spezia, Italy, 16 ‒ 21 July 2023. The competition did challenge the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) of participant teams to accomplish Inspection & Maintenance tasks set in the CMRE protected seawater basin. AUVs were requested to demonstrate perception, manipulation, adaptive mission planning and autonomous navigation skills to be successful.

The RAMI Marine Robots competition builds on the experience of the European Robotics League (ERL) Emergency competitions. The European Robotics League is an innovative concept for robot competitions which stems from its predecessors, the euRathlon and RoCKIn competitions, and focuses on tasks that emergency response robots execute in a realistic emergency environment. For more information about ERL, please visit https://eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/.

Results

Task Benchmarks

TBM-1: Pipeline area inspection
Ranking	Team	A	P
1st	UNIFI Robotics Team	12	0
Maximum achievement: 42

TBM-2: Intervention on the pipeline structure
Ranking	Team	A	P
1st	UNIFI Robotics Team	7	0
1st	Oubot	7	0
Maximum achievement: 40

TBM-3: Complete mission at the plant
Ranking	Team	A	P
1st	UNIFI Robotics Team	26	0
2nd	ITU AUV TEAM	8	0
Maximum achievement: 62

Functional Benchmarks

FBM-1: Mapping the area
Ranking	Team	Result
1st	UNIFI Robotics Team	0,82 (MI=0,78; MC=0,85)

TBM-2: Object detection
Ranking	Team	Result
1st	UNIFI Robotics Team	14

Special awards

Award	Team
Best team SAUC-E award	UNIFI Robotics Team (voucher from BTS)
Best presentation	ITU AUV TEAM (voucher from BTS)
IEEE OES Innovation award  plaque – money award from IEEE OES	UNIFI Robotics Team
Most improved vehicle –ping sonar from Blue Robotics	OUBOT
Best rookie	NAUTILUS TEAM
Best student poster	Simone Tani  ERGO Team (voucher from BTS sponsor)