Inexpensive, small AUVs for studying ice-covered polar environments

Hanumant Singh; Ted Maksym; Jeremy Wilkinson; Guy Williams

doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aan4809

Inexpensive, small AUVs for studying ice-covered polar environments

Sci Robot. 2017 Jun 28;2(7):eaan4809. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aan4809. Epub 2017 Jun 28.

Authors

Hanumant Singh¹, Ted Maksym², Jeremy Wilkinson³, Guy Williams^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. ha.singh@northeastern.edu.
² Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Falmouth, MA 02543, USA.
³ British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
⁵ Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem Cooperative Research Centre, Tasmania, Australia.

PMID: 33157900
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aan4809

Abstract

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are rapidly becoming the platform of choice for mapping the underside of sea ice, as well as for geological and biological oceanographic measurements in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.