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Recent advances in sensing and intelligent control technologies open a whole new dimension in underwater autonomy. However, before truly-capable, autonomous underwater robots can be created for subsea intervention and exploration, many research issues must be first investigated and developed experimentally on testbed platforms.
OTTER is an underwater robot designed to be used as a testbed for autonomous technologies. Both OTTER’s hardware and software systems are configured to support simultaneous development and testing of different concepts for underwater robotic by independent researchers. A general control-software framework enables common access to all subsystems and avoids the duplication of basic robotic functionality jointly required by all projects. Additionally, the new autonomous technologies enabled by the results of individual research are mutually compatible and can be easily integrated into a single robotic system. Examples of new technologies demonstrated on the OTTER underwater robot include control from a real-time vision-sensing system, coordinated arm/vehicle control, and control from 3D graphical user interfaces.
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Wang, H.H., Rock, S.M., Lee, M.J. (1996). OTTER: The Design and Development of an Intelligent Underwater Robot. In: Yuh, J., Ura, T., Bekey, G.A. (eds) Underwater Robots. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1419-6_13
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