Dr Blair Thornton

Associate Professor of Oceanic Engineering Science

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Blair Thornton is an Associate Professor of Oceanic Engineering Science within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton. He currently holds an EPSRC innovation fellowship to develop passive underwater robotic systems for scalable seabed imaging.

His research interests are in sensing and autonomy in the context of marine science. His research is dedicated to fielding real systems in real environments, and overcoming bottlenecks in the flow of information from data collection to human interpretation. For more information on research activities, please visit the ocean perception website.

Keywords: Spectroscopy, Computer vision, Marine robotics, Autonomy

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Research interests

3D visual mapping for wide-area benthic surveys

Laser-induced plasmas for in situ multi-element chemical analysis at sea

Acoustic and 3D visual mapping of the volumetric distribution of manganese crusts

In situ measurement of seafloor radioactivity off Fukushima

Research group

Fluid Structure Interactions

Affiliate research groups

Ocean and Earth Science, Ocean Perception Laboratory, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

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Takahashi, T., Thornton, B., Sato, T., Ohki, T., Ohki, K., & Sakka, T. (2018). Partial least squares regression calculation for quantitative analysis of metals submerged in water measured using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Applied Optics, 57(20), 5872-5883. DOI: 10.1364/AO.57.005872
Ishii, K., Hayashi, E., Misron, N. B., & Thornton, B. (2018). Special issue on advanced robotics in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 30(2), 163-164. DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2018.p0163

Thesis

Thornton, B. (2006). The development of Zero-G class underwater robots: unrestricted attitude control using control moment gyros

Module code	Module title	Discipline	Role
SESS6072	Maritime Robotics	Ship Science	Lecturer
SESS6070	Offshore Engineering & Analysis	Ship Science	Lecturer

Dr Blair Thornton
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