{"id":14038,"date":"2024-06-04T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/?p=14038"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:43:29","slug":"a-robotic-solution-for-the-detection-and-removal-of-purple-sea-urchins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2024\/a-robotic-solution-for-the-detection-and-removal-of-purple-sea-urchins\/","title":{"rendered":"A Robotic Solution for the Detection and Removal of Purple Sea Urchins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Apsis Solutions Ltd.<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Engineering\/Climate, 2023\u201324<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Josh Jones \u201998, Scott Nocas<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Nancy Lape<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Francine Wright (TL-F), Brittany Pan (TL-S), James Clinton, Ryan O\u2019Hara, Katie Baakkonen (F), Eliza Barnett (S), Castor Service (S)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">\n<p>Along California\u2019s coast, purple sea urchin populations have exploded, resulting<br \/>\nin the destruction of local kelp forests The Apsis Clinic team is developing a mobile robotic solution to identify and collect these sea urchins to contribute to kelp restoration. The team is developing a collection mechanism to be attached to an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) for removal of purple sea urchins, as well as a computer vision model for detection of the sea urchins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apsis Solutions Ltd. Engineering\/Climate, 2023\u201324 Liaison(s): Josh Jones \u201998, Scott Nocas Advisor(s): Nancy Lape Students(s): Francine Wright (TL-F), Brittany Pan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,705,164],"tags":[710],"class_list":["post-14038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-2","category-climate","category-engineering","tag-apsis-solutions-ltd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14108,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions\/14108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}