Sentences with phrase «autonomous underwater»

It's easy to see that modern ocean exploration has shifted from relying on brave explorers like Jacques Cousteau to autonomous underwater vehicles that can go where no man can.

Massive Arctic ice island drifting toward shipping lanes The biggest Arctic «ice island» to form in nearly 50 years — a 250 - square - kilometer behemoth described as four times the size of Manhattan — has been discovered after a Canadian scientist scanning satellite images of northwest Greenland spotted a giant break in the famed Petermann Glacier.Canada.com — Aug 07 10:16 am In another research, using Autosub, an autonomous underwater vehicle, researchers led by the British Antarctic Survey have captured ocean and sea - floor measurements, which revealed a 300 meter high ridge on the sea floor.

Observing the world's oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)-- marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide through the ocean without any real - time input from human...

The use of autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles is increasing our knowledge of how communities appear in their natural environment, but will need new methods of interpretation and analysis.

This includes maintaining Argo, the main system for monitoring ocean heat content, and the development of Deep Argo to monitor the lower half of the ocean; the use of ship - based subsurface ocean temperature monitoring programs; advancements in robotic technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor waters adjacent to land (like islands or coastal regions); and further development of real - or near - real - time deep ocean remote sensing methods.

We've written a lot about autonomous underwater vehicles, otherwise known as underwater robots, that serve different purposes from tracking marine life and exploring coral reefs to studying Arctic ice.

To do this they built a swarm of grapefruit - sized robots called miniature autonomous underwater explorers, or M - AUEs, that mimic the way plankton drift through the ocean.

«He has pioneered the use of AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) to measure under - ice topography and has worked with the Royal Navy since the 1970s in carrying out ice thickness measurement work from Navy submarines on Arctic deployments.»

Development of technology, including integrated telemetry and autonomous underwater vehicles, to further these studies.

Coastal and boundary current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean, such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.

If Nina Mahmoudian has her way, the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) will have a much better chance of getting it right.

To better understand this treacherous stream of water — and its role in the Southern Hemisphere's marine biodiversity — researchers guided autonomous underwater vehicles known as Seagliders (one shown here entering the water) through the Agulhas Current for the first time.

When deploying autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), much of an engineer's time is spent writing scripts, or low - level commands, in order to direct a robot to carry out a mission plan.

Scientists are using a variety of buoys and autonomous underwater vehicles to record and archive sounds from marine mammals and fish species in the western North Atlantic through a new listening network known as the U.S. Northeast Passive Acoustic Sensing Network (NEPAN).

The international research team led by the University of Tasmania and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) used the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry and the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason to explore, map, and collect erupted materials from the Havre volcano during a 2015 expedition.

They will use one of the Autosub Long Range class of unmanned submersibles, the latest type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by the NOC, now known as Boaty McBoatface, following last year's campaign by the Natural Environment Research Council to name the UK's new polar research ship.

For the first time, scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will deploy a small fleet of long - range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs) that have the ability to collect and archive seawater samples automatically.

For their work Maksym and co-investigators Guy Williams from the University of Hobart, Tasmania and Jeremy Wilkinson of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, used a robot known as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to cruise under ice in three regions near the coast and measure the thickness directly over a much larger area.

This robot which is essentially an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is ready for applications, as it can be programmed to perform specific functions, for example, for underwater archaeology such as exploring nooks and corners of wreckage — or sunken city which are difficult for divers or traditional AUVs to access.

The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named SeaBED that is armed with upward - looking sonar to map the underside of the sea ice floes.

The sampling system combines three cutting edge technologies — an adapted Suspended Particulate Rosette (SUPR) multi-sampler, a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with sensors, and identification of organisms by DNA barcode analysis.

Like another vent field in the Gulf that MBARI discovered in 2012, the Pescadero Basin vents were initially identified in high - resolution sonar data collected by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

Associate Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Amy Baco - Taylor, in collaboration with a team from Texas A&M University, observed these reefs during an autonomous underwater vehicle survey through the seamounts of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Designed for deepwater diving, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) DEDAVE is capable of diving down to depths of 6000 meters to explore the seabed for sources of oil or minerals.

Ben - Gurion University of the Negev has developed Israel's first autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

Just how «autonomous» is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) really?

The new BG Robotics HydroCamel II, Israel's first autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for use in the military, security and oil and gas sectors as well as in environmental applications and marine research.

She recently joined M.I.T. researchers on a boat off the coast of Cape Cod where they were putting a new autonomous underwater vehicle through its spaces.

This is the latest generation of M.I.T.'s autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs.

Oceanographers have mapped the seafloor and tracked endangered marine species for decades using autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs.

Not exact matches

During its fruitful 16 - year career the autonomous bot made more than 200 deep dives, navigating the treacherous terrain of the sea floor and mapping underwater mountain chains with little input from above.

To meet this challenge, the researchers are testing an innovative underwater remote sensing method, using active, autonomous acoustic transponders remotely accessible from the sea surface.

Pierre Cauchy, a PhD researcher from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, has been using one of these autonomous submarines for five years, recording underwater noises in the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic and Southern oceans.

Besides giving biologists a better understanding of how fish have optimized their swimming mechanics, the results of the study could also be useful to engineers developing underwater autonomous vehicles.

And one of those postdocs, he points out, is now working for a company that has a contract with the U.S. Navy to improve human interfaces with submarines and underwater autonomous vehicles.

With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous vehicles that can operate beneath sheet ice, a geological survey team set out last night to crush their way through the last untrammelled regions of the Arctic, mapping the sea floor as they go.

Liquid Robotics» Wave Glider, an autonomous surface ocean robot, will be the core technology to conduct long - term environmental monitoring and surveillance of the Pacific's most diverse and endangered underwater ecosystems.

Last summer, a British underwater autonomous vehicle called Autosub explored the cavity; the sub did several long traverses under the tongue, measuring its size and shape.

Lesson 3 — Underwater Game Learning Objectives You will understand how to: • Import sprites • Edit costumes of sprites given in Scratch • Animate sprites using scripts • Control the movement of sprites using the arrow keys • Create scripts that move sprites around automatically • Create interaction between sprites • Use co-ordinates and random numbers to set start position of sprites • Use variables and scripts to allow scoring and countdown • Use backgrounds built into Scratch • Making autonomous sprites

These problems are often very rich in detail — examples include power station management and control of autonomous vehicles underwater or space — and rely on the optimisations that planning systems make (which I will discuss another time) as well as time.

More recently, Paglen has explored the ocean floor to make photographs of underwater fiber optic cables that circle the Earth and enable internet connection and developed tools to show what artificial intelligence networks and other autonomous surveillance systems «see» when they look at the world.

Underwater autonomous vehicles (UAVs) will now have an easier time finding their way through murky water thanks to technology that mimics the sensing system of blind cave fish.

The brainchild of free diver Kevin Delfour and tech enthusiast Xavier Spengler, iBubble is the world's first autonomous and wireless underwater camera.