Collision Avoidance

Frontiers in Marine Research Robotics

Burton Jones, Professor, Marine Science

May 8, 10:30 - 11:00

B18 Fellowship Hall

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Marine Robotics Collision Avoidance Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Distributed Robot Systems Networked Robots

Abstract Marine robotics have evolved substantially since the early days of autonomous underwater vehicles which meant a multimillion-dollar vehicle always accompanied by a surface vehicle. An early step forward in scientific vehicles was the development of the buoyancy-driven autonomous underwater vehicles which could stay at sea for months and traverse large distances and depths down to 1000m, albeit slowly. Critical needs exist for vehicles that can map, image and characterize the sea bottom, and for intelligent fleet management schemes. The mesophotic (below diver accessible depths) and