BLUESIM — officially titled «Plataforma de entrenamiento sintético para UXV autónomos» (Synthetic Training Platform for Autonomous UXVs ) — aims to research a new type of training architecture for systems based on Deep Learning.
The consortium addresses two significant technological challenges:
- Characterization of a synthetic marine environment for Machine Learning.
- Representation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) with synthetic onboard systems.
With this approach, the project researches a synthetic simulation environment with an engine that provides physics and sensor modules. This allows for the extraction of hyper-realistic, traceable, and reproducible datasets used to train Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms in real-time—fundamental components for autonomous unmanned vehicles.
Project Snapshot
Timeline
- Start: July 1, 2023
- End: December 31, 2025
- Duration: 30 months
Consortium
- Leader: CLUE
- Members: NAVANTIA, SAES y CELESTIA TTI
Clue’s Role
As the project coordinator, Clue leads the research and development of a pioneering synthetic training platform for autonomous marine vehicles (UXVs). Our work encompasses the global system architecture, providing both the high-performance simulation hardware and the low-level software environment necessary to execute hyper-realistic scenarios in real-time.
Clue powers the project’s “brain” through research into new Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning) training methodologies, being responsible for generating the massive synthetic datasets that allow for the training of autonomous navigation algorithms in a safe and traceable manner. By integrating advanced sensor models and marine environment characterization, the technology researched in BLUESIM allows for the validation of critical operations without risking lives or real assets.
Funding
BLUESIM has received funding from the Ministry of Industry and Tourism within the framework of the Spanish Naval Ecosystem PERTE, part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).
Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
