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Shared Autonomy for Remote Collaboration
Shared Autonomy for Remote Collaboration (SHARC) enables remote scientists to participate in shipboard operations via a VR or desktop interface. The system coordinates data sharing and planning for remotely operated semi-autonomous robotics with low bandwidth communications constraints. It is particularly useful in complex or hazardous environments...
Published: 1/30/2025   |   Inventor(s): Richard Camilli, Amy Phung, Gideon Billings, Matthew Walter, Andrea Daniele
Keywords(s): Software
Category(s): Product Types > Marine Vehicles, Product Types > Underwater Communication & Navigation, Product Types > Tools and Equipment
Lightning Strike Predictor
Background: Safety at sea is a major concern, with many dangers such as strong winds, rough waves, navigation issues, vessel maintenance, and collisions with other ships. One of the biggest risks is lightning, which can be deadly to crew members and destroy electrical equipment. However, lightning is not fully understood, making it harder to predict...
Published: 3/24/2025   |   Inventor(s): Edward Brainard, Hans Weedon
Keywords(s):  
Category(s): Applications > Monitoring, Product Types > Sensors, Product Types > Tools and Equipment
Light Fiber Tether Management for Underwater Vehicles
Background: Lightweight tethers are used on underwater vehicles to minimize drag and maintain mobility, but their range is limited due to the fragile physical communications link. To extend range, fiber optics are deployed in a free payout configuration from the vehicle. However, these fiber tethers can become lofted in the water column and carried...
Published: 3/24/2025   |   Inventor(s): Mike Jakuba, Robin Littlefield, Eric Hayden
Keywords(s): Underwater Vehicles
Category(s): Product Types > Tethers and Tether Management, Product Types > Marine Vehicles, Product Types > Tools and Equipment
RotoBOD
­Bench-top instrument to measure oxygen consumption in small, suspended samples. The design utilizes a motor to rotate 60 gas-tight incubation bottles horizontally at user-determined speeds. It enables particles to stay in suspension through constant rotation to better replicate the activity the particles would show in their normal environment....
Published: 2/3/2025   |   Inventor(s): Paul Fucile, Clarissa Karthauser
Keywords(s): Academia, Environmental Monitoring, Gas Sensors, Oceanographic Research & Exploration
Category(s): Product Types > Samplers, Product Types > Tools and Equipment
Instrument Locator System (ILS)
­The Instrument Locator System (ILS) is a low-cost, easy-to-implement, stand-alone unit for recovering equipment or instrumentation at sea. The system attaches to any equipment that surfaces upon recovery. Once at the surface, the ILS sends GPS coordinates to a laptop and base station aboard the vessel within one minute. The laptop displays a graphic...
Published: 2/3/2025   |   Inventor(s): Timothy Kane
Keywords(s): Instrument recovery
Category(s): Product Types > Tools and Equipment, Applications > Instrument Deployment/Recovery
Rapid Seeding Spool
The Rapid Seeding Spool is effectively designed to reduce operation and labor costs in maricultural farming. The spool uses two thrusters to propel and evenly rotate around the seed string at a specified number of wraps per distance. The seeding can be done underwater and reduces the time seed spools spend in the air; this reduces exposure time to the...
Published: 7/10/2024   |   Inventor(s): Robin Littlefield, David Bailey, Scott Lindell, Ben Weiss
Keywords(s): Aquaculture
Category(s): Product Types > Tools and Equipment, Applications, Applications > Aquaculture
Dynamic Electric Motor
A novel Brushless DC (BLDC) motor system. The design is intended to decouple the torque from the voltage in BLDC motors, allowing torque and speed to be independent. The outcome is consistently applying torque to the shaft while reducing parts and friction and providing greater system control. Oceanographic exploration relies heavily on large dynamic-range...
Published: 12/16/2024   |   Inventor(s): Andrew Billings
Keywords(s): Hardware
Category(s): Product Types > Tools and Equipment
Acoustic Telescope
The Acoustic Telescope further expands remote deepwater exploration. The Telescope uses six hydrophones to listen to the ambient sound generated in biological, geophysical, meteorological events, and oceanographic and anthropogenic processes and activities. Using multiple hydrophones simultaneously creates one system capable of measuring and distinguishing...
Published: 7/10/2024   |   Inventor(s): Ying-Tsong Lin, Don Peters, John Kemp
Keywords(s): Environmental Monitoring, Oceanographic Research & Exploration
Category(s): Product Types > Tools and Equipment, Product Types > Sensors, Applications > Acoustic Monitoring
UV Anti-fouling
­This invention uses an LED to emit UV-C radiation, a mount to direct the radiation toward the optically transparent surface and control circuitry to drive the LED and configure the duty time cycle. LEDs can make the anti-fouling system more efficient, have a longer lifetime, and be more compact than traditional systems. Background:An improved...
Published: 7/10/2024   |   Inventor(s): Clifford Pontbriand, Norman Farr, Timothy Peters
Keywords(s): Biofouling
Category(s): Product Types > Tools and Equipment
Ground Water Seepage Monitor
­The Automated Groundwater Seepage Meter (GSM) uses an integrated spectrophotometer for sampling and analyzing both submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) and seawater. GSM produces high-resolution time-series data from tracer dilution data. The system can be configured to quantify water salinity, dissolved nutrients, and/or toxins. Working prototypes...
Published: 2/6/2025   |   Inventor(s): Matthew Charette
Keywords(s): Microplastics & Pollution
Category(s): Applications > Groundwater, Product Types > Tools and Equipment
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