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The Hawaiian Autonomous Undersea Robot
Roland Piquepaille writes "After several years of research, engineers from the University of Hawaii are now testing the first autonomous robotic vehicle for deep-ocean work in the U.S. This robot is called SAUVIM, short for Semi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention Missions. It's roughly the size of an SUV and it is designed to operate to a depth of about 4 miles. With its computers, its sensors, and a 5-foot, 150-pound autonomous manipulator, or robotic arm, it will be able to move towards a specific target, such as a wrecked pipe laying on the ocean floor -- and maybe fix it. Right now, this robot has an autonomy of about eight hours, but this range should soon be extended when the researchers move from batteries to fuel cells to power the undersea vehicle. This overview contains other details, references and several pictures of this autonomous submarine engine."
Will it protect me from the terrible secret of the deep?
What a terrible acronym! Let's see if we can come up with some better ones.
Here's my contribution:
Semi
Autonomous
Underwater
Robot
Over
Network
Pease post your ideas below:
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Over 8 hours of power for something the size of an SUV? And we don't have these for cars because?
imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!
When are fuel cells coming? We've been hearing about them since ages. It's about time they appear.
This space for rent.
ocean.google.com
I see it now, google maps for the ocean floor. I bet they buy this robot and start compiling their data asap. C'mon, first the moon and now this!!??
4 miles... that is slightly over 20,000 feet?
What is crush depth for subs?
I wonder if the next generation of war subs will not have any people, but will be robots. To think, wars fought and decided 20,000 feet under the sea, but by robots, no people.
Our world leaders could have their wars, and we would never know!
There is another cool use for this robot. I bet if they keep going deeper in the water, and learn how to make robots that can withstand greater pressure, when NASA decides to make probes for planets with higher gravity of pressure, they can use this data in creating their probes. Maybe these robots will be the great grand fathers of robots that go to jupiter or saturn.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
welcome our new aquatic robot overlords.
hopefyuly they will keep us safe from drowning in the pool.
PROPS TO STEVE ZISSOU!
What lies in the depths of the ocean is still mostly a mystery. A few of these things could accomlish a lot of work in the abyss. Imagine a fleet of these guys, well truly autonomous versions, charting what would be the worlds largest map. Awesome.
Think about all the wonderful things it could fix!
Like a whale it hears singing.
::Dreams of all the wonderful friends the repairbot would meet on his travels. Unfortunately he would be so lonely as all the sealife runs away.::#define CLUE 0
welcome our new robot, er, underlords.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
leave it to the military to seek out bad ways to use the sub. strap a nuke to that baby and it can seek and destroy. wow i can see this turning out bad...
(yes i know i suck at spelling fell free to correct my grammar and/or spellin i dont care, im still not going to change
It is funny when they say on the article:
"It will be able to move towards a specific target, such as a wrecked pipe laying on the ocean floor -- and maybe fix it."
This shows how robotics has been developed over the last years. Something like this:
"We must first build some robots to justify our budget. Once they're ready, we will worry about finding a good use to them to satisfy the market."
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women.
it's time to look at some images of the SAUVIM -- by the way, how did these researchers find such an unappealing name?
Because I love Ayanami Rei.
another "Roland Piquepaille" story. please no one click on the second link in the summary as it is only there to make money for Roland Piquepaille. he is scum. his stupid blog is full of ads and popups and he sits all day trying to get stories approved on /. so people will go to his blog and in turn make money from the ads.
there is no reason to post the link to his blog in the summary.
From PC World:
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"Today marks the 36th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the lunar surface for the first time.
Coincidentally, early tomorrow morning will mark the full moon."
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/00077
"The wars of tomorrow will be fought by tiny robots on the tops of very high mountains. Your job will be to build and maintain these robots."
Choi said 99 percent of the vehicle's system is autonomous, with 1 percent semiautonomous for a communications link for safety. A signal could be sent to the vehicle to stop and return if necessary, he said.
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http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/19/news/index11.h
In fact, used heavily by NASA. Now, if you want low cost reliable fuel cells, that is a different matter all together.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Every time you post a link to Roland's advertising blog, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens and kill Roland's blog / Slashdot kickbacks instead.
Cornell has a project like this - I'm not sure how far it has gotten. Anyone have a link?
With its computers, its sensors, and a 5-foot, 150-pound autonomous manipulator, or robotic arm, The Cowboyneal will be able to move towards a specific target, such as a Roland Piquenieaville posting stories -- and maybe fix it.
You do know that Scotty passed away today, don't you?
Why do I have to learn that from CNN?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
In Soviet Russia, Roland Piquepaille summarizes YOU!!!
Since the underwater robot relies on a source of electricity, why not help it out by generating some electricity with the salt water it's submerged in? I don't know how much salt is contained in the water at those depths, but salt water batteries aren't huge, are completely passive and require little to no maintenance.
Hey there... I'm a transplanted haole on Maui and "em" is a common term uttered here. "em" or "them" as in "them" the noun, examples... git em - fix em - loose em - break em - smack em - - or - save em... get em??? I love it!
I saw a documentary about that once, the ironically named, "little geek" prevented an interspecies war precepitated by a larger autnomous vehicle with strapped to a MIRV which would've been remarkeably one-sided against us. Funny thing is, the oil company turned out to be the good guys.
The most important lesson learned was: If your wife who you're falling back in love with drowns herself to go into hypothermic shock for the purpose of surviving a trip from the damaged minisub to the main complex without a suit the defibrillator, adrenaline and oxygen will do nothing. The thing to do is slap her around a bit and yell at her. Do this right away, the other "first aid" simply wastes time during which brain damage can occur.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
I wonder how much time they spent on comming up with a acronym that sounds like "swim"..
_Vishal www.squad9.com
U nderwater
B allasted
B ouyant
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D eploying
U nbelievably
C ool and
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Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
Yes, but does it make ono grinds, brah.
Ro-land! Ro-land! Ro-land!
For those interested in the general subject of underwater autonomous vehicles: http://www.gavia.is/ Gavia is a "modular" underwater vehicle. It has modules that can be put together according to ones needs. The site has some interesting reading material (if you click on the "Products" link) about the software architecture (basically the software is set up as a "virtual crew" with a "captain agent" a "navigator agent" and so on.
You don't think enough... therefore you better not be!
This should bring down the cost of maintaining that huge undersea network of hydrophones and magnetometers that doesn't exist. ;-)
So don't get excited about the depth / battery life claim. Get excited if they said that, even in a laboratory, they can get an AUV to fix a pipe that's not even covered with sediment.
Accidentally clicked clicked on a Roland Shitpaille link. I feel dirty...
The ABE (Autonomous Benthic Explorer) vehicle has been around since 1995. http://www.whoi.edu/VideoGallery/abe.html. And there are many others.
Come on now! Dirk Pitt has had one of these (two actually) for years now at NUMA (National Underwater and Marina Agency). If I remember my reading correctly, NUMA's version was autonomous and could operate for several days without refueling or recharging oxygen tanks (if there are people inside too).
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Without the threat of human death, there is no war, just an elaborate game.
How would you force the loser to accept the outcome?
DNA just wants to be free...
His last words were "captain, beam me up"