Welcome to the class

  Goals of the labs

  Introducing your equipment

  Our facilities
    - Beaver Works
    - Sea Grant AUV Lab
    - LAMSS Lab
    - PavLab

  Quick Overview of UUV history at MIT
    - AUV Lab
    - Bluefin spinoff
    - Marine Robotics Group
    - LAMSS
    - Marine Autonomy Lab

    - Pierre's group
    - Drew 

Today's Lab


  



Learning outcomes overall

  - strong familiarity of common UUV components and systems
    power, computing, sensing, thrusters and control surfaces

  - strong familiarity with software systems

  - basic operator software skills
    command-line, ssh, text editor, simple shell scripts

  - basic uuv operator skills
    openning and closing the UUV, test for seaworthiness

  - basic concepts of a network 
    What is a local network,
    IP addresses, DHCP servers, routers vs switches


Today's lab

  - Getting familiar with your laptop, especially if it is loaner
  - Getting familiar with your Home Kit

  - Logging onto your home kit from your laptop
  - get familiar with basic command line
  - get familiar with a text editor