AUV Lab Research

Vehicle Design

• UPDATED [8-19-04]: Hovering AUV Axes Control [ - quicktime movie | 11.0MB - ]
• UPDATED [8-17-04]: Hovering AUV Flight Testing in MIT Tow Tank [ - quicktime movie of flight control | 7.0MB - ]
• Hovering AUV [ - quicktime movie of Design Review | 2.8MB - ]
• NEW: Sensor Networks for the Study of Heterogeneous Fluxes in Lakes [ - PDF | 468kB - ]
• NEW: Buoy Design : Funded Fall 2003 by the NEC
• Kemonaut: An Odyssey Class AUV Platform for the NEREUS Underwater Mass Spectrometer
• Autonomous Surface Craft
• Small, High Performance Vehicles
• Non Acoustic Sensors
• Power: Energy Management
• Docking

Presentations

• [11-30-04] SG HAUV DR0 - PPT Version
• [11-30-04] SG HAUV DR0 - HTML Version
• [11-22-04] Mitsui Corporation - AUV Lab AI

Survey Design

• Adaptive Sampling
• Multiple Vehicle Operations
• Coastal Modeling
• Object Mapping in Non-stationary Fields

Software

• Current
MOOS - Mission Oriented Operating Suite
MOOS is designed to be a very flexible yet lightweight piece of software capable of executing and coordinating a multitude of subsea operations. MOOS is designed to operating system independent and can currently run on Linux,Solaris, WinNT, Win2000 and Win95 (although the later is not a viable subsea choice)
• Previous
• Mission Level Control
• Low Bandwidth Control
• Software Architecture

Operations

• GOATS
• Cultural Resource Survey
• Under-ice
• Complimentary Use
• Rapid Response to Episodic Events
• Autonomous Ocean Sampling Networks (AOSN)