AUVs!

hey team!

I'm chillin at Woods Hole, and I don't really have tons of time to write this, as I'm in the middle of work, but here's a quick update.

I'm working with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). This lab has worked with both floats and buoyancy-driven gliders, with a recent emphasis on the gliders. There aren't too many other labs out there using arrays of AUVs like this for science (the standard customers for the companies building these AUVs are the Navy and other defense organizations), so it's pretty new stuff, and super interesting. I've been working with two new propellor-driven gliders that they recently bought: these guys are about 2-3m long and can swim at about 1-2 m/s for 8ish hours. So far, I've been messing around in Matlab, working on a tracking interface for the gliders that we can use after deploying them in the field. It looks like we're going to test it out at the beach on Friday! I'll give a better update once this program is [mostly] finished and I start working more with the vehicles.

Anyways, here's a quick shot of my lab.

Sorry Joe, but my view wins. See ya in Houston :)

-- M