Robo-Submarines Learn to Dive Free
Robot submarines are pretty good at finding their own way around but they still need a helpful human to guide them through twisting underwater ravines and channels.- A new guidance system will let autonomous underwater vehicles snap photos along even the most treacherous reaches of sea floor.
- AUVs can already navigate in open water by matching their depth to an existing terrain map.
- The software tweak will allow underwater robots to autonomously take pictures of hazardous locations where only remote-controlled robots have gone before.
- The team ran a successful field test in Monterey Bay earlier this month and expects the system will be ready to be tried for real sometime next year.
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