Researchers at the QUT Center for Robotics have developed an innovative robot designed specifically to capture image of baby tank-grown corals. Why? They’re headed to the Great Barrier Reef for coral conservation, adaptation and restoration as part of the Reef Restoration & Adaptation Program (RRAP).
Manually doing this would cost around $500,000 AUD per week in labor, which amounts to easily $6 million/year over a 12-week growout period for just counting corals. This robot prototype is capable of capturing images of the baby corals in the tanks as they are growing in a repeatable, precise and flexible manner. The team is also leveraging state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms to automatically detect and count these coral babies and track their growth over time.
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AIMS researchers have knowledge of the biological processes involved and will be the eventual operators of the technology that we develop here in the CGRAS project. One of the main interventions for RRAP is about developing mass coral aquaculture for coral conservation, adaptation and restoration,” said Dr Dorian Tsai, QUT Centre for Robotics and Research Fellow for the QUT School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics.
