News Articles with Category: Gliders
October 21, 2014 – via MOST (AV)
We are delighted that the AutoNaut has successfully completed its first major offshore mission, and that the scientific sensors including the towed array have been safely recovered. It is encouraging to see that the novel camera system has already captured high-quality images of seabirds in the offshore environment, and we are excited about analysing the data in the coming weeks
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October 17, 2014 – via Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
The hope is that by gathering a series of measurements over the 10 hours that hurricane-force winds are expected affect the area, Anna’s perspective from underneath the water will yield additional insights into the interplay between the ocean and the storm.
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October 2, 2014 – via National Oceanography Centre
The range of vehicles and instruments being deployed at the same time is unique, and they will generate vast amounts of valuable scientific data. One advantage of using robotic vehicles is that they are relatively small and quiet compared to research ships, so they are ideal for making observations of marine life.
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October 2, 2014 – via National Oceanography Centre
The target for the deployment is an area of ocean marking the boundary between Atlantic waters and tidal waters from the English Channel – what’s known as an ocean front. Fronts like this usually create upwelling that brings nutrients from the seabed towards the surface and encourages plankton to thrive. That in turn attracts fish, whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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September 24, 2014 – via Michigan State University
The ultimate goal is to track the movements of the fish, including lake trout, walleye and lake sturgeon, to identify important habitats, understand why they move from one place to another, and how they are being affected by invasive species such as sea lampreys.
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September 4, 2014 – via ACSA
ACSA’s record-breaking glider confirms potential for scientific, commercial and military applications
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August 9, 2014 – via UW/APL
A determined effort to understand the Arctic is going on, in the sea and on the ice
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August 5, 2014 – via Dahlhouse University
Canadian and American scientists are getting ready to deploy autonomous underwater vehicles around the Scotian shelf to look for rare North Atlantic right whales and learn more about their habitats.
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July 23, 2014 – via Liquid Robotics
The Wave Glider was remotely piloted through the storm collecting and transmitting vital and rare, real time wave, temperature, conductivity and current data all from the surface of the ocean. Collecting current data to 100 meters and full directional wave spectrum data, this encounter gives scientists a unique picture of the horrific surface conditions during this type of event.
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July 11, 2014 – via Fortune
Nearly all of the major international oil and gas companies are experimenting with robotic technology, and most are using Liquid Robotics to do so.
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July 9, 2014 – via NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Earlier this spring, scientists launched two Carbon Wave Gliders and a Slocum underwater glider into the Gulf of Alaska to collect data for five months.
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June 26, 2014 – via Russian Navy
Stealthy, highly autonomous torpedo-like underwater vessels equipped with multiple sensors and detectors are expected to remain operational for up to 90 days, monitoring an assigned maritime area and reporting emergency intrusions to a command operations center.
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June 16, 2014 – via Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)
In REP14-MED, a large number of gliders from different Institutions and manufacturers are simultaneously at sea to collect ocean physical data in order to to improve the performance of ocean forecast models; diagnose and predict physical properties of the waters west of Sardinia; develop and test efficient sampling strategies; develop and test new methods to characterise the seabed; record underwater ambient noise; and test recent developments in underwater observation techniques.
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June 5, 2014 – via
From all this, it is clear that submarine drones will become an important part of the navies’ equipment!
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June 4, 2014 – via Popular Science
The Haiyan is currently a civilian platform, targeted for purposes of scientific exploration of marine biology, seabeds and to aid search and rescue missions
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June 2, 2014 – via Virginia Institute of Marine Science
His studies have focused on the Mid-Atlantic Bight, an offshore coastal region with a complex topography of canyons and circuitous shoreline that affect the area’s biology, chemistry, geology and fisheries.
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May 29, 2014 – via Michigan Technological University
ROUGHIEs will be modular, allowing users to swap out different components depending on what tasks the drones undertake. And they will cost a fraction of the price of a commercial model to build.
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May 28, 2014 – via Tianjin University
The Haiyan underwater glider can go 1,500 meters underwater; its maximum voyage is 1,000 kilometers and it can work 30 days continuously.
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March 14, 2014 – via Defense One
The Slocum glider is the most recognizable drone that the Navy and others use in research. These 5 foot-long sea robots collect data on their environment every few seconds and can descend to depths of 4,000 feet. The Navy plans to increase the number of those drones from 65 to 150 by 2015.
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March 10, 2014 – via Rutgers COOL
Rutgers University’s Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Will Gather an Unprecedented Dataset From All Five Ocean Basins
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January 6, 2014 – via MOST(AV)
Hull motions in waves are converted directly, silently, into propulsive thrust. This gives speeds of up to 3 knots for a 3.5m vessel.
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December 27, 2013 – via Memorial University
The search has taken staff from the university on plenty of wild-goose chases
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December 25, 2013 – via UW APL
While its top speed is low, the vehicle’s extremely long endurance allows it to traverse thousands of kilometers in a single deployment. The vehicle is relatively small and lightweight, enabling deployment via small vessels of opportunity.
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December 11, 2013 – via Popular Mechanics
Where the gliders can have the biggest impact are the places where the Navy can’t or isn’t allowed to go.
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December 5, 2013 – via ACSA-ALCEN
Reaching the mythic milestone of 60 days and a total of 1183 kilometers on a single battery charge, the SeaExplorer glider has successfully set a duration and distance record.
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November 25, 2013 – via Exocetus
The Exocetus Glider was surprisingly able to successfully complete 180 degree turns in waters as shallow as 3 m
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November 14, 2013 – via National Oceanography Centre
The gliders operating around the north and west of Scilly this year are part of a Defra study into the marine life in areas where the deep ocean water meets the continental shelf.
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November 11, 2013 – via Rutgers COOL
These drones are the centerpiece of “Gliderpalooza,” a collaborative ocean-survey experiment coordinated by 16 American and Canadian government agencies and research teams.
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October 29, 2013 – via Rutgers COOL
Data collected during Hurrican Sandy is being analyzed to increase readiness for future superstorms
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October 7, 2013 – via Virginia Pilot
A bunch of scientists decided to put our resources together and demonstrate what a fleet of these vehicles covering the whole East Coast can do
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October 6, 2013 – via Skidaway Institute
In all, 12 to 16 autonomous underwater robotic vehicles are being deployed. The gliders will be available through the peak fall Atlantic storm season to collect data on ocean conditions, which will help improve scientists’ understanding of hurricanes and pave the way for future improvements in hurricane intensity forecasts.
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October 1, 2013 – via Liquid Robotics
The top prize went to Dr. Tracy Villareal, a marine science professor at the University of Texas Austin, who focused his research on comparing spatial data from satellite streams to data collected by the Wave Gliders. The research spans a wide range of ocean research topics, like turbidity, weather, hydrography and chlorophyll fluorescence.
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September 13, 2013 – via Dalhousie University
Ocean-sampling robot gliders tracking animals, providing storm data
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September 13, 2013 – via Naval Postgraduate School Monterey
This purchase upcoming sensor purchase from AML is for the replacement of advanced oceanographic environmental sensors for the autonomous gliders.
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September 11, 2013 – via National Oceanography Centre
Using state-of-the-art technologies, science teams will measure changes to the flow and thickness of glaciers and investigate the role that the ocean plays in transporting warm water beneath ice shelves.
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September 9, 2013 – via NOAA
‘Gliders’ collect ocean data off East Coast
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August 26, 2013 – via Teledyne Webb Research
Teledyne Webb Research has delivered 84 gliders under this program. This FRP Phase Three calls for thirty two (32) additional gliders (six 200 metergliders and twenty six 1000m gliders).
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August 21, 2013 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
A long-endurance unmanned submersible able to operate over vast ocean areas for months at a time while using a minimum of electric power.
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August 16, 2013 – via Teledyne Webb Research
The mission has provided over 10,000 profiles of the water column from the near surface to 100metres deep.
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August 13, 2013 – via Texas A&M;
Researchers at Texas A&M; are working to discover more about these murky depths with new unmanned, missile-shaped Slocum gliders.
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August 13, 2013 – via P J Media
The USN, in its desire to maintain is dominance of the waves, actually plans to seed the oceans with Wabblers.
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August 12, 2013 – via Kongsberg Maritime
The first vehicle from the new Kongsberg Maritime business unit, Underwater Glider Systems
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August 4, 2013 – via UC Davis
An underwater glider that cruised the lake for 11 days in May helped document “internal waves” that can spread pollutants,
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July 29, 2013 – via UW APL
The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command says the training took place over one week and included hands-on assembly and testing, launch preparation, launch, piloting, recovery, breakdown and wash-down.
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July 20, 2013 – via TAMU
After tests about 40 miles offshore Galveston, Texas A&M; oceanographers declared two new Slocum gliders ready to deploy in the Gulf of Mexico.
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July 20, 2013 – via Teledyne Webb Research
Two key unmanned systems providing cost-effective access to the global ocean are gliders and floats. Gliders are becoming very well known, with hundreds employed by users around the world. Profiling floats number in the thousands and are an integral component of ocean observation strategies.
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July 20, 2013 – via PLOCAN
After six intense training days, on Saturday July 20th 2013 ended the Fourth edition of the PLOCAN Glider School at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) headquarters in Telde, Gran Canaria.
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July 18, 2013 – via Teledyne Webb Research
Teledyne Webb Research (TWR) has changed the basic configuration of the glider to include hybrid capacity in all new G2 gliders.
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July 8, 2013 – via NOAA
Underwater robots provide real-time data for right whale research
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June 16, 2013 – via Memorial University
The university is asking members of the public to keep an eye out for it because it’s possible the lost vehicle has washed up on a beach
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May 17, 2013 – via Liquid Robotics
The actual distance Benjamin traveled was 9,380.490 nautical miles (17,372.667 km)
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May 16, 2013 – via Kongsberg Maritime
“In looking for a new commercial licensee for Seaglider™, we wanted a company with broad experience in both the marine instrument and AUV businesses. Kongsberg fits that bill well and we hope they will bring this technology to many more people interested in understanding the ocean.
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April 23, 2013 – via USC Viterbi
Early warning system: USC Viterbi students deploy robots to help marine biologists better predict dangerous ocean activity before it becomes deadly.
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April 10, 2013 – via Linux.com
Instead of sending raw sensor data, Regulus can analyze and summarize the data onboard. For example, if the craft is carrying a hydrophone to listen underwater, and if customers can’t wait to retrieve the recordings later, Regulus can instantly report key findings.
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April 9, 2013 – via Defense News
Water-going robots bring unforeseen challenges — technological ones, to be sure, but also legal, regulatory and ethical tangles. Drones that fly or crawl on the ground are controlled by radio waves, but it is difficult — often impossible — to communicate with underwater vehicles. The answer, it seems, is autonomy — robots that are not remotely piloted, but that operate on their own.
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April 2, 2013 – via Coast Report
The data gathered while Tethys and Daphne are underway is sent to a satellite and can be accessed online. Google Earth can even be used to track their locations.
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March 14, 2013 – via PAMBuoy
Passive Acoustic Monitoring payload package deployed on the LR Waveglider
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March 6, 2013 – via University of Western Australia
The bloom is so big-about the size of Tasmania-that it can easily be seen from space, as satellite images show.
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February 24, 2013 – via GROOM
An important component of the European Marine Research Infrastructure will be Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and underwater gliders (UWGs)
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February 19, 2013 – via Teledyne Webb
In Slocum News we will share recent newsworthy events from within the Slocum glider community, including news from field deployments, user experiences, product developments and upcoming events.
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February 15, 2013 – via PLOCAN
The mission provides operational, scientific and technical support to the permanent seasonal observations program in the area, as part of the Macaronesian marine monitoring (R3M) strategy
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January 29, 2013 – via NOAA
Scientists from Rutgers University, a Mid-Atlantic partner of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®), recently launched a second test mission, called “Challenger,” aimed at sending the first unmanned, underwater robotic vehicle—known as a “glider”—around the world.
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January 14, 2013 – via Teledyne Webb
The initial glider for the University of Sao Paulo is a 200m depth rated coastal version. Subsequent gliders will be optimized for deeper operation at a maximum 1000m depth.
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January 9, 2013 – via WHOI
The project employed ocean-going robots called gliders equipped with a digital acoustic monitoring (DMON) instrument and specialized software allowing the vehicle to detect and classify calls from four species of baleen whales – sei, fin, humpback, and right whales. The gliders’s real-time communication capabilities alerted scientists to the presence of whales in the research area, in the first successful use of technology to report detections of several species of baleen whales from autonomous vehicles.
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December 24, 2012 – via Asbury Park (N.J.) Press
They got a rare glimpse into erupting undersea conditions as the storm swept ashore. Data the probe collected — including currents and sharp drops in sea surface temperature — might help scientists reconstruct Sandy’s behavior and better predict how hurricanes change in the critical hours before landfall.
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November 8, 2012 – via Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Lab
With almost all other vessels docked during the storm, the underwater glider was an especially valuable tool. “We’re able to learn in a very new way how the ocean and atmosphere are linked,”
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November 6, 2012 – via Associated Press
The goal, researchers said, is to look at how water temperature, the mixing of sand from the ocean floor, depth and pressure affect the intensity of a large storm.
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October 24, 2012 – via NewsObserver
The company is halting efforts to develop Seaglider as a product and will focus on existing customers and research efforts that will now occur at iRobot’s headquarters in Bedford, Mass.
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October 16, 2012 – via University of Delaware
Shark migrations studied with underwater robot along Delmarva Peninsula
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September 25, 2012 – via NOAA
A new underwater robotic vehicle is collecting important data along the Gulf Coast today, thanks to a partnership among Shell Oil Company, the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, and NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC).
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September 21, 2012 – via NUWC Newport
NUWC Newport was asked to support a team from New York University (NYU) at the Helheim Glacier on the east coast of Greenland to perform mapping and gather oceanography data to better understand the behavior of the glacier. The trip was also designed to evaluate NUWC Newport’s AUV’s measurement techniques.
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September 20, 2012 – via Savannah Now
A Loggerhead turtle surfaces with the object of its affection, an underwater glider that collects data for researchers at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.
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August 27, 2012 – via Marine Technology and Engineering Center (MARITEC)
The ultimate goal is to develop a vehicle which can stay in a specific area for fixed-point observation while keeping the body in balance under water and controlling its own direction by moving the on-board ballast weight.
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August 15, 2012 – via Royal Gazette
Research scientists abandoned their hunt for a missing glider yesterday, but local authorities continued to appeal to sailors to look out for it.
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August 6, 2012 – via PLOCAN
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, PLOCAN, hosted during the second half of July 2012 the third edition of the Underwater Gliders Summer School for two weeks on Gran Canaria.
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July 30, 2012 – via Shenyang Institute of Automation
In the experiment, the underwater glider conquered strong current and finished observation tasks of several operation cycles. Indicators and function of the system were normal, demonstrating sound controllability and good flow resistance ability.
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July 30, 2012 – via Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB)
The system was also tested and implemented in autonomous gliders and towed arrays in collaboration with the NURC (NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezzia, Italy)
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July 25, 2012 – via Naval Research Laboratory
Ocean gliders are becoming one of the Navy’s main tools for collecting data on the internal structure of the ocean for assimilation into ocean models.
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July 25, 2012 – via University Of Washington
Associate professor Craig Lee and professor Eric D’Asaro recently co-authored a paper on the trigger of the North Atlantic Bloom, a huge seasonal growth of phytoplankton on the Atlantic Ocean.
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July 13, 2012 – via National Oceanography Centre
Two projects investigating the use of robot submarines to map and monitor the seas around the United Kingdom – collecting data that will inform future government policy on the protection of the marine environment – have received £720,000 in funding.
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July 13, 2012 – via ScienceNetwork
The data being gathered will be used as part of future economic development along the coastline in the Pilbara and the Kimberley. “The potential for future oil and gas developments do need precise information about the state of the ocean and biodiversity in them,”
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July 11, 2012 – via Asbury Park Press
Data to help understand oxygen levels
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July 6, 2012 – via National Science Foundation
Phenomenon of spring and summer is jump-started by swirling currents of seawater
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July 3, 2012 – via Oceanographic Laboratory of Villefranche-sur-Mer
The SeaExplorer underwater glider is a new type of robot that is used to measure a variety of ocean properties between the surface and a depth of 700m. A series of intensive tests of the SeaExplorer is currently underway between Nice and Corsica.
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July 2, 2012 – via Aviation Week
One key advantage of unmanned vehicles is that their persistence is not limited by the human operator. This also means their size is set by the payloads and sensors that they carry, not by the need to accommodate a pilot or crew. But in many cases, this now means that unmanned systems run into an energy limit, both in terms of endurance and their ability to deliver power to radars, lasers and communications links.
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June 22, 2012 – via Wired
Sea gliders and their democratization may well represent the most important contribution to oceanographic hardware in the last decade, but they are specialized tools best suited for specific types of questions. As researchers watch gliders evolve, a future dominated by fully autonomous, re-charging robots might not be so distant.
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June 9, 2012 – via The Economist
Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography
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May 25, 2012 – via Bartington Instruments
Bartington Instruments’ low noise Mag648 magnetometer is being used to assist underwater gliders in navigating beneath the icecap.
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March 16, 2012 – via IOOS
The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System launched a new asset map that displays where partner gliders are currently patrolling and where they’ve been.
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March 11, 2012 – via IOOS
The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System launched a new asset map that displays where partner gliders are currently patrolling and where they’ve been.
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February 21, 2012 – via CalTech
Last month, Thompson set off on a research cruise to deploy three of these new gliders, as well as some surface drifters that follow the currents and can be tracked with global positioning system (GPS) receivers.
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February 1, 2012 – via MOAA
The U.S. Navy has moved into full rate production of its underwater Littoral Battlespace Sensing-Glider (LBS-G) program, calling for the manufacture of 35 gliders from a Huntsville, Ala., company.
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December 19, 2011 – via Savanna Morning News
Catherine Edwards and Jim Nelson of Skidaway Institute of Oceanography are spending this winter chasing a mystery off the coast of the Carolinas from Cape Romain to Cape Fear. It’s here that nutrients like phosphorous and nitrogen well up each year from the deeper water and set off a bloom of microscopic sea plants called phytoplankton.
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December 19, 2011 – via Bluefin Robotics
The Spray Glider operations took place at Pulley Ridge near the West Florida Shelf in approximately 60 meters water depth. It performed 3,200 dives over 100 kilometers distance. In addition to the Spray’s high quality conductivity, temperature and depth payload, the system was equipped with optical scattering and chlorophyll sensors.
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December 19, 2011 – via ACSA-ALCEN
After a week of sailing in fresh water on Lake Geneva by negative outside temperature, the glider Oceanographic SeaExplorer was launched November 30, 2011, off Nice to lead his first mission offshore.
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December 2, 2011 – via Office of Naval Research
NR provided funding to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Southern California (USC) to advance the intelligence of autonomous vehicles under both ANTIDOTE and a related university program called Smart Adaptive Reliable Teams for Persistent Surveillance.
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November 18, 2011 – via
A team of scientists led by researchers at UC Santa Cruz is deploying gliding underwater robots and sensitive underwater labs to identify where and when blooms begin.
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October 28, 2011 – via Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Five teams, one from India, selected for the fourth phase of the UPM 2011 International Academic Competition on Underwater Gliders Design, in which they will develop their project.
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September 30, 2011 – via Sarasota Patch
Mote scientists deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) nicknamed “Waldo” at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29 in waters about two miles west of Siesta Key, to patrol for harmful algae for about one week.
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September 21, 2011 – via NERC
Sensors on Autonomous Underwater Gliders
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September 20, 2011 – via iRobot
Seaglider can now be outfitted with a larger set of fairings that significantly increases the UUV’s volume and mass payload capabilities. Payload mass is doubled over Seaglider’s original design to four kilograms and payload volume has expanded 650 percent to more than 21,000 cubic centimeters, resulting in the ability to integrate both larger sensors and a greater number of sensors with Seaglider.
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September 6, 2011 – via Ocean News and Technology
A U.S.-based research team and their Canadian colleagues developed the new approach by determining the relationships between seawater temperature, oxygen, pH and CO2 from observations collected on previous ship-based expeditions in the region in the last five years. These relationships were then applied to high-resolution observations of temperature and oxygen collected by an Argo float deployed in the North Pacific in early 2010.
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August 31, 2011 – via Shenyang Institute of Automation
It is the first time for the underwater glider, independently developed and manufactured by China, to accomplish deep-sea observation test. While bringing back precious scientific data, the test also lays down a profound foundation for the gilder’s future development and application.
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August 10, 2011 – via Ketchikan Daily News
Seven Ketchikan middle-schoolers participated in the “Build an Underwater Glider” camp last week at the University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan campus Roberts Building on Stedman Street.
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August 4, 2011 – via Xinhua News Agency
Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences deployed the underwater glider in the Western Pacific
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August 2, 2011 – via EarthSky
I have been working in this area for 22 years, and we haven’t actually seen [underwater rivers] because we’ve been using the traditional way of doing oceanography. With the ocean gliders, we get much better coverage 24/7 and very high resolution, and that’s how we made this discovery.
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August 2, 2011 – via Federal News Radio
The Navy is teaching middle school students in Alaska about autonomous, underwater gliders, which travel the oceans gathering information about temperature, depth and other measurements.
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August 1, 2011 – via Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
Carbon Explorer floats follow ocean currents, yo-yoing back and forth in the first kilometer below the surface of the sea, then resurfacing to report their data and receive new instructions via satellite. Since the early 2000s a dozen Carbon Explorers have produced detailed information on the carbon cycle in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Ocean
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July 21, 2011 – via Strategy Page
Research ships have already had a few close calls with pirates. So the task of dropping off (and sometimes picking up) these robotic research devices will be carried out by some of the warships operating off Somalia, and points east.
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July 7, 2011 – via Teledyne Webb Research
The Open Ocean Slocum G2 gliders will support the high latitude Global Arrays of the OOI.
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July 7, 2011 – via Wall Street Journal
Like many Silicon Valley start-ups, Liquid Robotics Inc. collects data and plans to let customers access the information over the Web. But the company’s product stands apart: It makes remote-controlled robotic devices that gather information while cruising the open ocean.
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June 2, 2011 – via University of Western Australia
Oceanographers at The University of Western Australia have discovered the first underwater ‘rivers’ to be identified in a sub-tropical region flowing along the ocean bed off Perth’s coastline.
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May 12, 2011 – via Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
This competition has an international scope and its main goal is the design of a small underwater glider concept radio controlled, according with the technical requirements of these rules, taking into account the future application of the underwater gliders in the scientific and business environments.
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May 3, 2011 – via MIT
A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift.
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April 18, 2011 – via Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Mysterious blooms occurred during the winter along edge of the continental shelf off Long Bay — located between Cape Romain, South Carolina and Cape Fear, North Carolina. Phytoplankton blooms like those observed off Long Bay can provide a considerable boost to the bottom of the food chain, with significant implications for fisheries.
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March 23, 2011 – via Fastcompany
The same company behind the popular Roomba robocleaner is producing an underwater robot that can stay below the surface for months.
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March 16, 2011 – via Teledyne Webb
The Slocum G2 gliders will support the Pioneer and the Endurance Arrays of the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) of the OOI.
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February 25, 2011 – via Scientific American
After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica’s icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite-guided robotic subs. The hope is that these sea gliders, which can dive hundreds of meters and stay in the water for months at a time, will help to unlock the secrets of phytoplankton blooms that nourish the organisms in Antarctica’s Ross Sea for a few months each year before mysteriously disappearing.
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February 17, 2011 – via Sloutions Journal
While we have not reached the fleet stage, we have, in fact, embarked on a path that brings us closer to realizing his vision.
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February 17, 2011 – via NURC
Proud Manta 11 Test conducted by NURC, a NATO Research Centre in La Spezia
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February 3, 2011 – via Stars and Stripes
NATO is testing three Autonomous Undersea Vehicles, or AUVs, in the Mediterranean Sea this month as part of the alliance’s largest annual anti-submarine warfare exercise.
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February 1, 2011 – via Oregon State University
OSU’s growing fleet of underwater gliders monitors the Pacific Ocean
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January 20, 2011 – via CSIRO
A $200,000 CSIRO coastal glider is bound for Queensland to be deployed in Moreton Bay to investigate the impact of the recent flooding on marine ecosystems.
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December 29, 2010 – via Seadiscovery
In an increasingly crowded unmanned underwater vehicles field, iRobot stands out with its robotics pedigree.
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December 13, 2010 – via Smithsonian Institute
One year ago this month, the RU 27, an eight-foot underwater glider, also called Scarlet Knight, completed a 221-day journey across the Atlantic Ocean. The torpedo-shaped, autonomous vehicle broke the record for the longest underwater trip by a glider in history. Last Thursday, the record-breaking glider was put on display for all to see in the Natural History Museum’s Sant Ocean Hall.
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December 9, 2010 – via Smithsonian Institute
The Smithsonian Istitute opened a Inteactive Underwater Glider Website.
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December 9, 2010 – via English.news.cn
Scientists and students from Rutgers University launched the transatlantic glider, dubbed “the Scarlet Knight” in honor of the school’s mascot, off the New Jersey coast in spring of last year. One year later, it is laid as a centerpiece within the Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Museum.
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December 8, 2010 – via WesternGeco
A technique facilitates the use of seismic data. The technique utilizes an autonomous underwater vehicle to obtain data on water column characteristics in a seismic survey area. The data can be used to adjust aspects of the seismic survey data and/or the seismic survey technique.
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October 26, 2010 – via Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command’s USNS Pathfinder embarked Littoral Battlespace Sensing Gliders, Oct. 21 while ported at Naval Base San Diego. The unmanned undersea vehicles, also known as UUVs, are undergoing at-sea testing, Oct. 22 to Nov. 6.
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October 25, 2010 – via Boston Globe
Bedford’s iRobot Corp. said it has received two contracts from the Naval Oceanographic Office at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
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August 26, 2010 – via Bluefin Robotics
The purpose of the agreement is to collaboratively further glider-based marine science and technology research in the areas of education, autonomous vehicle development, manufacturing, and at-sea operations.
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August 20, 2010 – via NRDC Switchboard
Thankfully, the best thing about Waldo’s run is what we didn’t find – oil. Waldo didn’t turn up any strong indications of oil on the continental shelf to the north and northwest of the Florida Keys during this run.
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August 11, 2010 – via The Advertizer
A robot has taken to life under the ocean waves near Spain – with its every move controlled by scientists based 900 miles away at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
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August 11, 2010 – via Nature.com
Every summer for the past nine years, water with lethally low concentrations of oxygen has appeared off the Oregon coast. The hypoxia may be a sign of things to come elsewhere, finds Virginia Gewin
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August 2, 2010 – via HeraldTribune
The agency held an emergency meeting within 24 hours of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig sinking and scientists soon were gathering samples and deploying oil-detecting robots.
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July 22, 2010 – via Fort Meyers Beach Talk
Mote Marine Laboratory, in collaboration with Natural Resources Defense Council and Oceana, has launched an oil-detecting underwater robot off the Florida Keys as a first line of defense against underwater oil plumes from the Gulf oil disaster
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July 18, 2010 – via Honolulu Star Advertizer
Scientists are deploying a fleet of robotic instruments in Hawaiian waters to try to solve an oceanographic puzzle: how microscopic algae thrive in vast ocean areas with few nutrients needed to grow and reproduce.
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July 18, 2010 – via Palm Beach Post
The handful that have been deployed are a drop in the bucket, compared with what’s needed in the vast Gulf, researchers say. When the Deepwater rig exploded April 20 and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, coastal residents, fishermen and environmental agencies needed to know one thing: Where would the oil go?
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June 25, 2010 – via Alaska Diapatch
Initially designed to aid the U.S. Coast Guard in catching trespassing Russian and Japanese fishing vessels, the gliders are equipped with acoustics capable of sensing sound signatures. The signatures of the foreign ships are unique, allowing the glider to correctly identify their presence. But as the project evolved, new uses emerged.
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June 9, 2010 – via The News Journal
The Blue Hen is part of a larger effort mounted by Mote, government agencies and universities as the oil approaches marine ecosystems surrounding Florida. The mission highlights some particular challenges created by the country’s worst oil spill, gushing about a mile underwater: Researchers have developed most tracking, containment and environmental mitigation techniques for surface oil spills.
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June 2, 2010 – via Bradenton Herald
Waldo, one of Mote Marine Laboratory’s underwater robots searching for spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, is being replaced after a communications problem. So far, none of Mote’s oil hunters have detected oil.
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May 28, 2010 – via San Diego News Network
The glider, also called Spray, that Scripps is sending to the Gulf Coast was scheduled to be deployed in the Pacific to study the effects of climate on California’s coast — but, said Scripps oceanographer Daniel Rudnick, in “national interest” the Scripps team is redirecting it to the Gulf.
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May 28, 2010 – via Nextgov.com
To support the federal response to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the Naval Oceanographic Office has deployed sensor systems to monitor surface currents and measure physical properties of the deeper Gulf waters to better analyze the disbursement of the millions of barrels of oil that has poured into the environment.
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