AUTOASSESS Open Call for Tech Solutions
AUTOASSESS Open Call for Tech Solutions
AUTOASSESS aims to find solutions to ensure the structural safety of ships, oil and gas and other marine infrastructures. Currently, this task is done by human surveyors who must climb into confined areas such as ballast tanks, or cargo holds which represent extremely dangerous GNSS-denied environments. The inspection is a physically demanding task, done in tight enclosed spaces, difficult to access, with low/no light, slippery surfaces and with low/no oxygen and toxic gases. According to the International Marine Organization (IMO) one person is killed on average every week from accidents in such enclosed spaces. Further, during the inspection process the ship cannot operate, posing high pressure on surveyors to work quickly. In summary, the overall goal of AUTOASSESS is to remove human surveyors and workers from dangerous and dirty confined areas of offshore structures by employing an autonomous robotic system that exceeds human capabilities and is able to perform maritime vessel classifications. To address this goal, AUTOASSESS aims to employ a robot and remove human surveyors out of harm’s way, while at the same time obtaining an accurate, repeatable, and quick vessel inspection.
Entité de financement
Commission Européenne - Horizon EuropeClôture de l'appel
5 mai 2026Zone géographique
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Objectif
The core innovation of AUTOASSESS focuses on a fully autonomous inspection of ballast tanks and cargo holds of vessels. AUTOASSESS employs an open approach to innovation that relies upon using the entire value chain of the consortium and external stakeholders to assess the best ideas, regardless of their origin.
The overall objective of the open call is to foster/promote the development & deployment of AUTOASSESS solution through the engagement of innovative technological startups & SMEs applying to the open call providing solutions to specific project’s challenges or proposing new ideas/ concepts that generate value to AUTOASSESS.
Open Call for Tech Solutions invites skilled SMEs and Startups to present their technology solutions to the following use-case challenges identified by the AUTOASSESS technical team together with the use-case owners :
1 Reliable high-bandwidth communication for off-board control of drones
2 Stereo event-camera on miniature drone
3 Human Operator interface for FA-IUAS
4 Crack detection with multi-element ultrasound transducer
5 Synchronization of multi-modal sensor data
Critères d'éligibilité
AUTOASSESS will fund SMEs and Start-Ups applying to the Open Call for Tech Solutions with an individual application or in consortia of 2 entities.
All entities must be eligible to work in the EU or Horizon Europe associated Member State and have a valid VAT.
Technologies clés
CH1: Telecommunications, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), control systems, network protocol
CH2: Sensor integration, computer vision, design and development of miniaturized drones, advanced camera systems
CH3: Cargo hull & ballast tank
CH4: Non-desctruvtive testing (NDT), Ultrasound
CH5: Sensor synchronization, sensor fusion, (Time-Sensitive) Networking
Typologie de consortium
Open Call laureates will lead 6-month projects and benefit from :
- grants up to €150k (Funding rate of 70% of the costs for SMEs and 100% for Startups)
- AUTOASSESS team of experts guidance, mentorship, training and access to infrastructure (demonstrators)
- Being part of AUTOASSESS success stories, fostering industry uptake of AUTOASSESS solution
- Contributing to real impact on demonstrators and end-user entities