Robot Platforms in Current Projects    (back to home)

Autonomous Surface Craft
Robotic Marine Systems, Gray Maine, 207-408-5879
  • Four platforms, NAVSEA - Division Newport RI
  • Six platforms, MIT Dept of Mechanical Engineering
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These platforms are used in the "COLREGS Autonomous Navigation" project, the "Autonomous Sensing and Task Execution" project, and in the PLUSNet project. All platforms are running the "MOOS" software and the Helm-IvP software. Each vehicle is equipped with 802.11b wireless communication, a Garmin-18 GPS, a digital compass, and powered by a Minn Kota motor. (full description).


(Photo from Charles River experiments, August 2005.)  larger     similar     kayak videos
Iver2 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
OceanServer Technologies, Fall River MA
  • Three platforms, NAVSEA Division Newport RI
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The three NUWC Iver2 platforms run the MOOS-IvP autonomy software on a payload computer working in coordination with a main vehicle computer providing low-level vehicle control.

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Odyssey III Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Bluefin Robotics, Cambridge MA
  • Two platforms, MIT Dept of Mechanical Engineering
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These platforms are used in the PLUSNet project, among others. They use the MOOS vehicle operating system and the HelmIvP control module.

(Photo by Matt Grund, WHOI, from SACLANT experiments in Italy, July 2005.)  larger
ATRV-Jnr vehicles
iRobot, Burlington MA

These platforms are used in the "Autonomous Sensing and Task Execution" project. They use the MOOS vehicle operating system and the HelmIvP control module has been ported and tested in March 2005.

(Photo by M. Benjamin, visit to Oxford, March 2005.)  larger