Organization Details

Virginia Tech

Website: http://www.ascl.ece.vt.edu/index.html

Organization's Description:

Autonomous Systems and Controls Laboratory

Research activities range from fundamental issues in systems and control to the practical art of designing and deploying advanced autonomous robots for maritime applications. Specific research activities include:

Fundamental research

Coordinated control of multiple vehicles over extremely low bandwith communication networks.

Simultaneous distributed data fusion and decentralized control for mobile sensor networks

Information-theoretic exploration and mapping

Synchronization and consensus over stochastic networks

Applied Research

Adaptive environmental sampling using autonomous vehicles

Advanced control system design

Disributed navigation

Design and deployment of advanced maritime robots

Machine vision for maritime applications

AUV Configurations

• Standard 475 AUV

Platforms

• 475 AUV
• HSAUV
• Miniature Autonomous Underwater Vehicle