Prof. N. Kato presented the paper entitled "Autonomous Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Buoy System and Application to Marine Disaster Prevention System: Part 1" at ATCE 2012 (SPE)(Houston, USA, Oct.8-10, 2012)

SOTAB project was exhibited atTechno-Ocean 2012 in Kobe.

Mr. S. Tsutsukawa, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled ”Efficacy Evaluation of Data Assimilation　for Simulation Method of Spilled Oil Drifting”, and Ms. M. Fujiwara, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled”Autonomous Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Buoy System and　Application to Marine Disaster Prevention System"at AMEC2012 in Taipei.

Dr. Y. Takagi presented the paper entitled "Numerical Modeling of Methane Hydration and Droplet Transport for Deepwater Oil Spill” at Gulf of Mexico Oil spill & Ecosystem Science Conferecne in New Orleans.

The first sea trial of SOTAB-I was carried out at Suruga Bay, Shizuoka, Japan.

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Mr. R. Kumura, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled ”Guidance and Control of an Autonomous Underwater robot for tracking and monitoring spilled plumes of oil and gas from seabed”, and Mr. Mahdi　Choyekh, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled ”Development of Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking and Monitoring Autonomous Buoy System and its Application to Marine Disaster Prevention" at ISOPE 2013 in Anchorage(USA)

The second sea trial of SOTAB-I was carried out at Suruga Bay, Shizuoka, Japan......................

Prof. Kato visited SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway to discuss the bilatral joint reserarch.

Prof. Kato presented a paper entitled ”Development of Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking and Monitoring Autonomous Buoy System and its Application to Marine Disaster Prevention”at Offshore Europe 2013 （SPE) held in Aberdeen, UK.

Prof. Kato visited NOFO in Stavanger, Norway to discuss the sea trials of SOTAB-II.

Mr. Ukita, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entitled "Construction of Guidance and Control System and GUI of Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking and Monitoring Autonomous Robot SOTAB-I" at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Robotics Society of Japan.

Mr. Kimura, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entitled ”CONSTRUCTION OF GUIDANCE AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND GUI OF AN AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER ROBOT: SOTAB-I”at CAMS 2013（IFAC) held in Osaka.

The third sea trial of SOTAB-I was carried out at Suruga Bay, Shizuoka, JapanSOTAB-I.

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Prof.Kato presented a paper entitled ”Autonomous Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Buoy System and Application to Marine Disaster Prevention System”at Subsea Leak Detection Symposium(MTS) held in Houston,USA.

Deepsea Expedition in Gulf of Mexico using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle SOTAB-I was carried out from the base station of LUMCON(Lousiana Universities Marine Consortiam).

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Dr. Takagi visited SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway to discuss the recent results of deepsea gas seapage simulation and possible collaboration.

Dr. Takagi and Mr. Tsutsukawa, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented their papers entiled "Numerical Investigation of Ambient Flow Effect on Oil and Gas Spills in Deep Water", and "Efficacy analysis of spilled oil tracking simulation with data assimilation”, respectively, at 2014 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014 GOM Oil Spill and Ecosystem Conference in Mobile (USA)

Mr. Sho Kawahara, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled "Numerical investigation of behavior of methane gas/hydrate seeping out from deep sea floor”at 24th Symposium on Ocean Engineering(Tokyo, Japan)

Dr. Takagi stayed at SINTEF in Tronheim, Norway supported by the program of Promotion for Strengthing Research of Osaka University．

Mr. Swarn Singh Rathour, student in Doctor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled ”Modelling and Control Design of Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy”, and Mr. Mahdi　Choyekh, student in Doctor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled ”Structure of Control System of Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Autonomous Underwater Vehicle SOTAB-I" at ISOPE 2014 in Busan(Korea)

Water tank experiment of SOTAB-I after repair of damages during the sea experiment in Gulf of Mexico was conducted at Simulation Tank for Underwater Working Site of Port and Airport Research Institute.

Sea experiment of SOTAB-I was carried out off Tokushima using Fukae-Maru of Kobe University．Photos/movies（Google albumn）

Sea experiment of SOTAB-I was carried out in Toyoma Bay using Wakashio-Maru of Toyama National College of Technology．

Sea experiment of SOTAB-I was carried out in Toyoma Bay using Wakashio-Maru of Toyama National College of Technology．

Prof. Kato presented a paper entitled "Autonomous Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Buoy System and Application to Marine Disaster Prevention System", Mr.Mahdi　Choyekh, student in Docotor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entitled"Water Column Survey using a Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Autonomous Underwater Vehicle SOTAB-I in Gulf of Mexico"， Mr. Ukita, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering," presented a paper entitled "Construction of Guidance and Control System of Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking and Monitoring Autonomous Robot SOTAB-I，Mr. Swarn Singh Rathour, student in Doctor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,"Autonomous sea surface vehicle for oil spill tracking in open waters” at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Robotics Society of Japan.

Dr. Y. Takagi presented the paper entitled "Effect of liquid-gas interaction on plume　structure in blowout flow", at the 46th autum meeting of The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ)

SOTAB Project was exibited at Techno-Ocean 2014

Dr. Y. Takagi presented the paper entitled "Effect of liquid-gas interaction on plume　structure in blowout flow" at International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP-25)

Mr. Ochi, student in Master course of Division of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Science nad Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, presented the paper entiltled "Precison analysis of numerical simulation of liquid-gas mixed blowout flow

Prof. Kato presented the paper entltled "Current Status and Issues of SOTAB Project"，Mr. Mahdi　Choyekh, student in Docotor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entitled ”Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Autonomous Underwater Vehicle SOTAB-I"，Mr. Ryota KImura of Mtsubishi Heavy Industry presented the paper entiled "Construction of Underwater Localization Method for SOTAB-I by Integrated Inertial Navigation System"，Mr. Swarn Singh Rathour, student in Doctor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented the paper entilrd "Autonomous sea surface vehicle for oil spill tracking in openwaters”，Dr. Takagi presented the paper entiled"Numerical Simulation of Methane Gas Blow Out in Deep Water"，Dr. Suzuki presented the paper entitled "Data Assimilation in the Numerical Model of Drifting of Spilled Oil on Sea Surface" at annual Autumn meeting of Japan Society of Naval Architets and Ocean Engineering

Sea experiment of SOTAB-I was carried out in Toyoma Bay using a boat Sazanami of Toyama National College of Technology．SOTAB-I succeeded in taking pictures of seabed of 700 m water depth in Toyama Bay Photos/movies（Google albumn)

US Patent on SOTAB-II(US8983780 B2) was disclosed with the tilte of Unmanned drifting substance monitoring buoy, drifting substance monitoring system, and drifting substance monitoring method(

Sea experiment of SOTAB-I was carried out in Toyoma Bay using a boat Sazanami of Toyama National College of Technology．

Sea experiment of SOTAB-II was carried out at Eiga-Shima Beach, Akashi-City.

Sea experiment of SOTAB-I was carried out in Toyoma Bay using Wakashio-Maru of Toyama National College of Technology．

One session on SOTAB project was oeganized in ISOPE 2015, Hawaii,USA. 6 papers were presented. Mr. Swarn Singh Rathour, student in Doctor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled ”Control Algorithm for Oil Spill Tracking Using ASV with Onboard Oil Detecting Sensor”, Mr. Mahdi　Choyekh, student in Doctor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled ”Vertical Water Column Survey of Komatsu-shima in Japan Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle SOTAB-I", Mr. Yamaguchi, student in Master course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled "Estimation of Water Current Profile in Deepwater Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle SOTAB-I”, Dr. Takagi presented the paper entiled "Numerical Prediction for the Methane Gas Rising from Seabed in Deep Water”, Mr. Ochi, student in Master course of Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka Univ., presented a paper entiled "The Effect of Liquid-Gas Interaction on Plume Structure in Blowout Flow”, and Dr. Suzuki presented the paper entiled "Study on Spilled Oil Drifting Simulation Applying Data Assimilation with SOTAB-II”.

Mr. Mahdi　Choyekh, student in Doctor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled "Early detection and monitoring of large scale hazardous substances spill from offshore platforms using autonomous underwater vehicle”, and Mr. Swarn Singh Rathour, student in Doctor course of Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, presented a paper entiled "Tracking and spread monitoring of large scale hazardous substances spill from tankers and offshore platforms using autonomous robotic systems" at 25th Symposium on Ocean Engineering(Tokyo, Japan)

Sea experiment of SOTAB-I was carried out off Joetsu where methane plume is being seeped from seabed using Wakashio-Maru of Toyama National College of Technology and installing an underwater mass spectrometer(UMS) for sensing the methane plume. Because UMS had water leak inside of its pressure vesse, we had to give up our exploration, although we could see the seepage of methane plume from seabed by an echo sounder just below our mother ship. Photos/movies（Google albumn)

Sea experiment of SOTAB-II was carried out at Eiga-Shima Beach, Akashi-City.