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SUMMARY:Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - a New Tool for the Exploration of
  Oceans and Lakes
DTSTART:20091012T161500
DTSTAMP:20261002T044730Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Alexander Bahr\nAutonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have 
 become a powerful tool for underwater research. Over the last two decades 
 the technology has matured from simple prototypes to a great variety of ve
 hicles capable of autonomously sampling and mapping hundreds of square kil
 ometers of ocean floor to depths of 11000 m. They now hold great promise t
 o accelerate the exploration of "the other 70%" of earth's biosphere which
  today is mostly accessed conventionally through large and expensive resea
 rch vessels. This talk will give an overview over the available AUV techno
 logy today and its applications. It will outline the challenges to robots 
 in the underwater domain  particularly in communication and localization/n
 avigation and will propose a possible solution to the localization problem
 .\n\nWe encourage everybody with a research interest in local water bodies
   such as lake Geneva  to think about how AUV technology could benefit the
 ir current research and/or provide a possibility to address new research q
 uestions.
LOCATION:GR B3 30
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