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MAR – The Amphibious Rover for Environmental Monitoring
MAR – Multipurpose Amphibious Rover is an amphibious rover designed to operate seamlessly across land, water and transitional environments without changing its configuration. Thanks to its modular architecture, it provides an innovative robotic platform for environmental monitoring, data acquisition, inspections in hard-to-reach areas and support for scientific research activities.
Developed by SeTeL through a long-term research and innovation programme, MAR integrates advanced sensors, intelligent navigation systems and data acquisition technologies, offering a versatile solution for applications in aquaculture, the Blue Economy, biodiversity monitoring, water resource management and ecosystem protection.
A Robotic Platform Designed for Hybrid Environments
The key innovation of the MAR amphibious rover lies in its ability to move continuously across land, water, wetlands, muddy terrain and coastal areas without requiring any mechanical reconfiguration.
This unique capability eliminates the need for different robotic platforms to operate in different environments, making MAR particularly effective for monitoring activities in complex ecosystems where the transition between land and water is often the main limitation of conventional technologies.
Its modular architecture also enables rapid adaptation to different missions by simply integrating dedicated payloads and sensor packages.
One Amphibious Rover, Endless Applications
MAR has been conceived as an open technological platform capable of supporting a wide range of operational scenarios.
Typical applications include:
- Water quality monitoring;
- Aquatic ecosystem monitoring;
- Biodiversity assessment;
- Sustainable aquaculture support;
- Inspection of rivers, canals, lakes and reservoirs;
- Wetland and protected area monitoring;
- Automated environmental data acquisition;
- Scientific research support;
- Environmental early warning systems;
- Water infrastructure inspection and monitoring.
MAR has been conceived as an open technological platform capable of supporting a wide range of operational scenarios.
Typical applications include:
- Water quality monitoring;
- Aquatic ecosystem monitoring;
- Biodiversity assessment;
- Sustainable aquaculture support;
- Inspection of rivers, canals, lakes and reservoirs;
- Wetland and protected area monitoring;
- Automated environmental data acquisition;
- Scientific research support;
- Environmental early warning systems;
- Water infrastructure inspection and monitoring.
Its versatility allows the same robotic platform to perform multiple missions, reducing operational costs, deployment time and environmental impact.
Modular Technology for Environmental Monitoring
The Multipurpose Amphibious Rover integrates advanced technologies designed to ensure reliability, flexibility and high-performance operation even in demanding environments.
Key features include:
- Assisted and autonomous navigation
- Remote operation
- GNSS positioning
- Multi-sensor integration
- Real-time data acquisition
- Intelligent data processing
- Cloud-based data transmission
- Open architecture for future sensor integration
From Scientific Research to Industrial Innovation
MAR is the result of an extensive research and development programme carried out in collaboration with universities, research centres and industrial partners.
Over the years, the platform has been progressively enhanced and validated through several innovation projects, steadily increasing its Technology Readiness Level (TRL) while expanding the range of supported applications.
Today, MAR represents a technological foundation for next-generation solutions dedicated to the Blue Economy, sustainable natural resource management and the digital transformation of environmental monitoring.
Why Choose MAR
MAR stands out from conventional robotic systems thanks to several distinctive characteristics that maximise operational effectiveness.
These features enable long-term monitoring operations while reducing operational risks and improving the quality and reliability of collected data.
- Seamless transition between land and water
- Modular and reconfigurable platform
- Low environmental impact
- High operational autonomy
- Advanced sensor integration
- Automated environmental data acquisition
- Intelligent decision-support capabilities
- Adaptability to a wide range of applications
Enabling the Blue Economy and Ecosystem Protection
Addressing today’s environmental challenges requires technologies capable of collecting reliable data, operating safely in complex environments and supporting informed decision-making.
MAR has been developed precisely with this objective: to contribute to the protection of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems through the integration of robotics, advanced sensing technologies, real-time data acquisition and artificial intelligence.
Today, the platform supports research organisations, public authorities, environmental agencies and industrial operators committed to the sustainable management of natural resources and the development of innovative environmental monitoring solutions.
Discover the Applications of MAR
Explore the technologies behind MAR, its research and innovation projects, and the wide range of applications enabled by the Multipurpose Amphibious Rover.