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Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI), Lee, NH: a non-profit, independent research institute in Lee, New Hampshire, focuses on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and related systems.
AUSI also has ties to other institutions and industry, including Northeastern University's Marine Science Center, to the University of New Hampshire, and to the University of Maine's Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving (CDPS) Research Group. (see respective entries)
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
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Florida Atlantic University
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Advanced Marine Systems Laboratory ( Department of Ocean Engineering)
This lab is dedicated to the R & D of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for military and scientific missions.
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Center for Acoustics and Vibration Sonar CHIRP Lab
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Acoustic Modem: Objective is to provide cost effective, reliable, high data rate underwater communications in shallow water between a UUV and a surface support ship, between UUVs, and between a UUV and underwater instruments such as long baseline navigation systems and moored scientific instruments.
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Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, MD
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JANUS, Johns Hopkins Autonomously Navigating Underwater System
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KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, Reston, VA
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Lockheed Martin company
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High Performance Computing (HPC) Directorate of Sanders, Nashua, NH
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Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL), Lee, NH
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Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL): MSEL research centers around intelligent ocean systems, in particular autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), especially intelligent AUV control, AUV control architectural issues, long-range AUV development for ocean science applications, and multiple-AUV systems and cooperative distributed problem solving.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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MIT Sea Grant (Home Page): The MIT Sea Grant College Program is one of 29 programs in the National Sea Grant Program network. MIT Sea Grant is also the home of The Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory, where small, unmanned robot submarines are designed, built and tested.
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AUV Laboratory
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AUV Lab vehicles: Odyssey IIb, CETUS [New!] , Odyssey I, Odyssey II, Sea Squirt
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Orca project (Winners of 1998 INt'l AUV Competetion!)
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AUV Odyssey II
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Hermes Project: micro-AUV, dimensions 29"x 10.5" x 3.5"
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Robo-Lobster: is a benthic micro-AUV that is being used to test biologically-inspired algorithms for AUV guidance using chemical signals. The vehicle is designed to mimic the basic features of a lobster relevant to chemical sensing and associated behaviors.
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RoboTuna: designed and built by David Barrett for his doctoral thesis, mimics the shape and motion of a small tuna.
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AUV Publications / Technical Reports
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Technology Review Online: Down to the Sea in Robots (R. Fricke)
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Monterey, CA
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NASA Ames RC Intelligent Mechanisms Group, Moffet Field, CA
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Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center (NCCOSC)
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Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Division (NRaD)
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Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego
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Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, CA
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Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport Division
Research and development involving autonomous Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) and key underwater technologies.
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21 and 26 inch diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
(Technical details, as well as points of contact for each topic: Navigation, Low Speed Control & Hydrodynamic Simulation, Vehicle Controller, Intelligent Controller, Variable Ballast System, Acoustic Communications, Thrust Vectored Pump Jet, Motor.)
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Naval Research Laboratory, Transmission Technology Branch
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Aerospace Robotics Laboratory
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Underwater Robotics: OTTER (Ocean Technology Testbed for Engineering Research) vehicle (also, information on Critical Technologies Experimental Platforms, Experimental Demonstrations to Date, Experimental Demonstrations in Progress )
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University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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RALPH (Ogasawara, G.H., Russell, S.J., "Real-time, decision-theoretic control of an autonomous underwater vehicle.") - this is a part of the Comparative Reference of Cognitive Architectures
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RALPH-MEA controlled an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), providing a testbed. It allowed exploration of obstacle avoidance and surveying, but did not include any manipulation of the environment.
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University of Maine, Orono, ME
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University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
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Robotics and Automation Laboratory
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Woods Hole Oceanographics Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA
CANADA
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International Submarine Engineering,
Ltd. (ISE), Vancouver
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International Submarine Engineering (formerly International Submarine Engineering Research - ISER)
ISER has developed the following AUVs: ARCS AUV , semi-submersible Dolphin(a.k.a. U.S. Navy operated Orca), Theseus AUV, Aurora (under development)AUV research overview
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Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
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