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ecoSUB teaming up with Bristol Maritime Robotic's, Tom Rooney

9/11/2022

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The ecoSUB team are delighted to welcome Tom Rooney.  

Tom is a co-founder of Bristol Maritime Robotics and is also a visiting fellow at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.  In addition to Tom's research work at Bristol Robotics Lab and BMR, he has teamed up with us a few days a week to share his expertise and to collaborate on some exciting technology development. 

Tom's experience is extensive; he has a PhD from Bristol Robotics Laboratory where is is currently a visiting fellow, has worked across a wide range of maritime robotics projects and his research areas are in challenging environment robotics.
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Welcome to Jonathan Law

7/11/2022

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ecoSUB are delighted to introduce our latest team member, Jonathan Law. Jonathan has a Masters from UCL in Robotics & Computation and is a graduate with first class honours in Electrical Engineering. Jonathan joins ecoSUB as a Robotics & Embedded Software Engineer in our R&D department.
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Network Localisation paper published: Ad hoc Acoustic Network Aided Localization for micro-AUVs. Field Robotics

18/10/2022

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Davide Fenucci of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), along with co-authors, Jeremy Sitbon (ecoSUB), Jeff Neasham (University of Newcastle), Alex Phillips (NOC) and Andrea Munafo (NOC) have had their paper, Ad hoc Acoustic Network Aided Localization for micro-AUVs, published in the Field Robotics journal.

This paper focuses on the development of the ecoSUB Network Localisation solution which extends navigation capability for ecoSUB AUVs when operating within a network.  Network Localisation was developed as an outcome from the Innovate UK funded LCAT project, a collaboration between ecoSUB Robotics (a division of Planet Ocean Limited), National Oceanography Centre and University of Newcastle.

Fieldwork was completed with a fleet of earlier prototype ecoSUB AUVs, so specification and capability has changed somewhat, but this paper provides an excellent overview of the work completed and advances made during this project.

Download a copy of this paper here.
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ecoSUB @ REPMUS 2022 with the Royal Navy

23/9/2022

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Last week Iain travelled to Portugal to join up with the Royal Navy to deploy their ecoSUBm5-Power+ Scout AUV, featuring a brand new Nortek Nucleus DVL-1000, Power+ module for extended endurance and 1200kHz side scan sonar system from Marine Sonic Technology.  The AUV was also equipped with sensors for conductivity, temperature and fluorometer for Chlorophyll-a, a nano-modem for underwater communications and an independent pinger system.  

REPMUS is a NATO exercise featuring robotic systems being operated underwater, on the surface and in the air.  The Royal Navy's Project HECLA team took a range of autonomous systems to operate within the program.  The ecoSUB AUV missions were relatively limited due to a lack of support boats during the window of operations, but great to see it complete a couple of small, but perfectly executed missions, with the new Nortek DVL providing an excellent aide to navigation. 
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Farewell to Jeremy

26/8/2022

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Jeremy joined the ecoSUB team right back in 2015 as our first Software Engineer, he has been involved in every step of our journey in the development and optimisation of ecoSUB AUVs, and a fab person to work with.  After 7 years, Jeremy leaves his role as Chief Robotics Engineer this month to pursue a new challenge in the underwater glider world.

We wish Jeremy the very best for the future and will of course be staying in touch.

Change of course brings new opportunities and we are well underway in the development of both the R&D and Production teams that Jeremy proudly led.
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ecoSUBu5 launched by XLAUV platform

15/8/2022

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One of ecoSUB's recent customers have installed a transit and launch facility in their Hydrogen fuel cell powered XLAUV for multiple ecoSUBu5 micro-AUVs.  At 4kg and maintaining a cylinder rule, the ecoSUBu5 is ideal for autonomous launch systems such as this.  The ecoSUBu5 has previously been launched by uncrewed surface vehicles and fixed winged aerial drones, so launch by a mother-ship AUV completes Air, Surface and Underwater autonomous deployment - a first for an AUV system.

Launch of the ecoSUBu5 happened on 15 July 2022 as part of a demonstrator mission, where the micro-AUV transited to the surface and sent a status message to the users command and control center. 

More information can be found here: 
​https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cellula-successfully-completes-demonstration-missions-using-hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered-auv-301605145.html 
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ecoSUB Trials: 19-22 April 2022

26/4/2022

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The NEW ecoSUBm5-Power+ AUV out on trials

The ecoSUB team have been out running the new Power+ module through trials in April.  Power+ is a 27cm extension to the m5 or m25 housing which doubles the normal battery capacity of an m-series ecoSUB AUV, increasing endurance and facilitating higher power payloads. 

​Trials were focused on vehicle attitude and controller tuning, however, two of these vehicles went out with 1800kHz and 1200kHz side scan sonar systems where they were able to collect some awesome images from the Royal Navy's Defence Diving Centre in Portsmouth, UK.

The Power+ module is compatible with all production ecoSUBm5 and m25 AUVs and is depth rated to 2,500m.  The module also provides additional space for dry electronics.

The development of Power+ is part of the SoAR (Squads of Adaptive Robots) project part funded by Innovate UK - this project will continue to yield exciting and innovative advances to ecoSUB AUV technology.
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ecoSUB community: PhD opportunity

4/3/2022

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One of our most recent ecoSUB AUV customers, Dr Adrian Nightingale, based at University of Southampton is currently recruiting for a PhD.  This exciting opportunity involves the development of chemical sensors to be integrated on an ecoSUBu5 AUV platform.

For more information please check out: ​https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/an-ocean-alkalinity-sensor-for-autonomous-vehicles/?p139668if
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Customer Focus: PML deploying their ecoSUBm5 in Cawsand Bay

11/2/2022

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Iain and Ayana from the ecoSUB team joined Matt Taylor and Oban Jones from the autonomous systems group at Plymouth Marine Laboratory to spend the day running some missions with one of their ecoSUBm5 AUVs.  The group at PML are preparing to do some seabed video surveys using their ecoSUB AUVs and were running some trial missions.  Iain and Ayana tagged along to share experience and provide support.
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ecoSUBm5-Hydrocarbon Sniffer AUV on display for Oil Spill Response Limited & Blue Ocean Monitoring

25/11/2021

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Iain and Alex were working from a beach in Southampton yesterday, running missions with the ecoSUBm5-Hydrocarbon Sniffer AUV, our low cost platform available with the Seabird Scientific SeaOWL sensor for oil in water detection and a Valeport CT sensor for conductivity and temperature.

The missions were run to allow colleagues from Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) and Blue Ocean Monitoring the chance to see the vehicle up close and appreciate the speed of data availability.  As part of the work, OSRL received full data sets immediately after each mission and integrated it into their mission control platform for data visualisation.  This process was tuned during the day and allowed full output within minutes of a mission finishing.

The ecoSUB AUV demonstrated its ease of use, ability to be operated with very little infrastructure and performed perfectly, completing all missions and providing useful data.  
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