Firms are building robots that can survey the seabed and underwater structures without human help.
His company is one of several looking to disrupt that market using artificial intelligence systems. They see a future where underwater robots, known as autonomous underwater vehicles , will be able to do the surveying work without much human oversight, and send the data back to surveyors in the office.
"Enabling the AUV to analyse data in real time means you can actually instruct the robot to do other things. If you come across a problem, the survey can be stopped, and more data collected, with the robot making decisions for itself," he says. The system generates a 3D cloud of individual data points, a format used in modelling software like CAD. It combines those points with camera images to generate a realistic 3D reconstruction.
Using autonomous subsea robots to survey the seabed and inspect underwater structures would be a"game changer", according to Mr Tompkins and should"significantly" cut costs. There is a juicy prize for the firms that can make such intelligent underwater robots work. Over the next decade the offshore wind market is expected to see"quite extraordinary" growth, according to Søren Lassen, head of offshore wind research at the consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
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