MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) | Nimble autonomous robots help researchers explore and study the ocean @MBARIvideo | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Autonomous robots are essential to the future of marine science, engineering, and exploration. Understanding the ocean’s complex physical and biological processes requires robust observing systems, like MBARI’s long-range AUV (LRAUV).
The LRAUV was designed to fill the need for a mobile underwater robot to observe upper ocean processes. It has been tested over 36,000 hours offshore across a fleet of eight vehicles and has a unique ultra-low energy transit mode, allowing the vehicle to be operated without a support ship.
MBARI engineers have outfitted the LRAUV with various tools, allowing scientists to track and control the platform remotely and collect real-time ocean data through microbial sampling, bioluminescence, active bio-acoustic imaging, water sampling, plankton imaging, and multibeam mapping.
The ocean is critical to life on Earth, but faces a fragile future and a rising tide of threats. Monitoring ocean health is increasingly urgent, but logistically challenging. Scientists need nimble research tools to scale our observations of the ocean and its inhabitants. We envision a future where robotic platforms, like the MBARI LRAUV, can monitor ocean health 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Learn more about the LRAUV: mbari.org/team/lrauv
Writer, narrator, video editor: Marike Pinsonneault
Production team: Heidi Cullen, Larissa Lemon, Kyra Schlining, Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Susan von Thun
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Autonomous robots are essential to the future of marine science, engineering, and exploration. Understanding the ocean’s complex physical and biological processes requires robust observing systems, like MBARI’s long-range AUV (LRAUV).
The LRAUV was designed to fill the need for a mobile underwater robot to observe upper ocean processes. It has been tested over 36,000 hours offshore across a fleet of eight vehicles and has a unique ultra-low energy transit mode, allowing the vehicle to be operated without a support ship.
MBARI engineers have outfitted the LRAUV with various tools, allowing scientists to track and control the platform remotely and collect real-time ocean data through microbial sampling, bioluminescence, active bio-acoustic imaging, water sampling, plankton imaging, and multibeam mapping.
The ocean is critical to life on Earth, but faces a fragile future and a rising tide of threats. Monitoring ocean health is increasingly urgent, but logistically challenging. Scientists need nimble research tools to scale our observations of the ocean and its inhabitants. We envision a future where robotic platforms, like the MBARI LRAUV, can monitor ocean health 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Learn more about the LRAUV: mbari.org/team/lrauv
Writer, narrator, video editor: Marike Pinsonneault
Production team: Heidi Cullen, Larissa Lemon, Kyra Schlining, Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Susan von Thun
Learn more about MBARI’s work: mbari.org
Subscribe to MBARI’s newsletter here: mbari.co/newsletter
Follow MBARI on social media:
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TikTok: tiktok.com/@mbari_news
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Tumblr: tumblr.com/mbari-blog
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