Subsea Systems Institute (SSI)
"Advancing Subsea Innovation for Safer Offshore Energy"
Houston, Texas research institute founded 2015 at the University of Houston; develops subsea robotics and autonomous underwater vehicles for offshore energy.
The Subsea Systems Institute (SSI) is a research center founded in 2015 at the University of Houston, created as a joint effort with Rice University and NASA's Johnson Space Center following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Based in Houston, Texas, SSI operates as a Texas Center of Excellence funded in part through the federal RESTORE Act, working to improve the safety, reliability, and efficiency of offshore energy operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
SSI's research covers autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for subsea inspection and maintenance, including a prototype AUV designed for vertical station-keeping, autonomous docking, and manipulation tasks intended to extend beyond conventional ROV capabilities. Other projects include robotic platforms fitted with sensors for pipeline leak detection, a piezoelectric sensor array for touch-based structural health monitoring of bolted subsea joints, and collision-avoidance algorithms for groups of underwater robots tested at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab. The institute's ROICE program studies converting decommissioned offshore oil and gas structures into renewable energy infrastructure.
In October 2020, SSI received 9.5 million dollars in RESTORE Act funding for research and economic development activities. The institute combines applied engineering research with graduate education and workforce training for the offshore energy sector.
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United States
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2015
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Research Institute
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North America
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