ASSOCIATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, UNIVERSITIES, COMPANIES

USA

USA

• Applied Technology Institute Clarksville, MD (continuing education in acoustics, AUVs, and marine technology)
• Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI), Lee, NH
  • Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute
  • Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute and Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology Consortium Working Group
  • Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL)
• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
  • The Robotics Institute
    • Project on autonomous navigation:  Navlab Project
    • Projects overview (autonomous systems, medical robots, virtual reality)
    • Robotics and Vision Sampler Page Index
    • Task Control Architecture (TCA): provides a framework and software utilities for building robot systems that need to combine deliberative and reactive control. TCA provides high-level support for distributed communications via message-passing, hierarchical task decomposition and sequencing, resource management, execution monitoring, and error recovery.

• Clemson University - Department of Civil Engineering

• Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering (U.S. NavaL; Academy)

• Florida Institute of Technology (Underwater Technologies Laboratory)

• Florida Atlantic University (Advanced Marine Systems Laboratory)

  1. Dr. P. Edgar An Director, Advanced Marine Systems.
  2. Dr. Lipka specializes in electrodeposition of metals and alloys, rechargeable batteries and corrosion.
  • AUV home page: Ocean Voyager II, Ocean Explorer
  • A Passive Sonar System for UUV Surveillance Tasks,
  • Center for Acoustics and Vibration Sonar CHIRP Lab
    • Acoustic Modem:  underwater communications between a UUV and a surface support ship, between UUVs, and between a UUV and underwater instruments and moored scientific instruments.

• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

  1. Jerry W. Neely - Engineering Director - neely@hboep.com, ph. 772.465.2400 ext.476 • fx. 772.468.0071
• The IOC’s International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) was established in 1961 to enhance marine research, exploitation and development by facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data and information between participating Member States and by meeting the needs of users for data and information products.
• Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, MD
  • JANUS, Johns Hopkins Autonomously Navigating Underwater System
• Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL), Northeastern University of the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI), in Lee, NH, home of the EAVE AUV. MSEL/AUSI concentrates on AUVs, intelligent control of AUVs, and cooperative distributed problem solving for multi-AUV systems, including CDPS techniques for controlling autonomous oceanographic sampling networks (AOSNs).
  • Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL)
    • EAVE-III,
      • EAVE Software Architecture
    • LRAUV - Long Range AUV
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sea Grant)
  • MIT Sea Grant (Home Page): Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory
  • AUV Laboratory
    • AUV Lab vehicles: Odyssey IIb, CETUS, Odyssey I, Odyssey II, Sea Squirt
    • AUV Odyssey II
      • The Search for the Giant Squid (Kaikoura Canyon, New Zealand)
      • Haro Strait Tidal Front Mapping
    • Hermes Project: micro-AUV
    • Robo-Lobster: is a benthic micro-AUV - 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.
  • MIT Towing Tank
    • Charlie, the original RoboTuna:
      • The Tech Robotuna Project To Model Real Fish (by D. Isla, Oct 95)
    • RoboTuna II
  • AUV Publications / Technical Reports
  • Technology Review Online: Down to the Sea in Robots (R. Fricke)
  • Orca project (Winners of 1998 Int'l AUV Competition!)
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Monterey, CA
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  • Underwater Robotics Project
• Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, CA (Center for AUV Research)
  • Center for AUV Research (Home page)
  • Phoenix AUV
    • NPS Phoenix AUV Related Thesis Work (archives by abstract/author)
  • Virtual World for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
  • Theses

• Northeastern University's Marine Science Center

• Offshore Technology Research Center, (OTRC) is a graduated National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center supporting the offshore oil and gas industry. It is jointly operated by Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin. 1200 Mariner Drive, Texas A&M Research Park, College Station, TX 77845, Phone: (979) 845-6000 Fax: (979) 845-9273

• Pennsylvania State University (Real-Time Embedded Systems)

• Pennsylvania State University (Distributed Autonomous Systems)

• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  • Underwater Vehicle Dynamics & Control Lab

• Stanford University (Underwater Robotic Vehicles)

• Stevens Institute of Technology's Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering in Hoboken, New Jersey - Davidson Laboratory

• University of Delaware

• University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, Center for Underwater Robotic Technology (CURT) 
  • Autonomous Systems Laboratory
    • AUV ODIN (Omni Directional Intelligent Navigator)
    • Technical Reports, Autonomous Systems Laboratory
    • IGW Graphics Simulation of ODIN
    • Pictures and documentation about ODIN
    • (SAUVIM) Semi-Autnomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention Missions - rated for 6000m depth.
• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  • The Machine Intellignce Lab
    • SubJugator AUV
• University of Utah, Decentralized Control of Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • RALPH (Ogasawara, G.H., Russell, S.J., "Real-time, decision-theoretic control of an autonomous underwater vehicle.") - part of the Comparative Reference of Cognitive Architectures
  • RALPH-MEA
• University of Maine, Orono, ME
  • Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving (CDPS) Research Group
    Cooperative problem solving by groups of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Ongoing research projects in intelligent AUV control, communication between autonomous agents, and coordination of problem solving by groups of autonomous agents.
  • CDPS Research Projects page
    • Multiple AUVs MAUV/CoDA project
    • Orca Project Home Page
      Intelligent, robust, adaptive controller for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
    • Orca: Intelligent Adaptive Reasoning for AUV control
    • CDPS Group Publications (list, papers, slides, download PostScript/HTML; as of 9/97)
    • Students' Theses

• University of New Hampshire, Marine Systems Engineering Lab (see above)

• University of New Orleans

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP)
    • GRASP Lab Research Projects (list of projects; for each an abstract and list of related publications is given)
  • Subsea Teleprogramming
    Subsea manipulative tasks under operator control via an acoustic communications link.

• University of Rhode Island

• University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
  • Center for Ocean Technology, Marine Science Department
    AUV sensors for oceanographic research.
• University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
  • Robotics and Automation Laboratory
    • Autonomous Underwater Vehicle project
      (programs for collision avoidance and object recognition)
    • 1996 Technical Reports
      (AUV-related: TR-96-1-1, TR-96-1-2, TR-96-1-7, TR-96-1-8, TR-96-2-1)
    • 1997 Technical Reports
      (AUV-related: TR-97-1-24)
    • 1998 Technical Reports
      (AUV-related: TR-98-1-2)

• University of Texas at Austin - Dept of Civil Engineering

• Woods Hole Oceanographics Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Deep Submergence Laboratory
    • Underwater Vehicles
      •  ROV Jason/Medea, ARGO-II
      • Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE)
  • Oceanographic Systems Laboratory
    • REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS)