The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is making underwater operations easier for human-machine teams, unveiling a set of algorithms to improve coordination and perception in challenging environments.
Building on foundational work from the MIT Marine Robotics Group, a team led by principal investigator Madeline Miller developed a navigation algorithm that tracks a diver’s position relative to an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).
“With the algorithm demonstrated by MIT, the vehicle only needed to calculate the distance, or range, to the diver at regular intervals to solve the optimization problem of estimating the positions of both the vehicle and diver over time,” Miller said.
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