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General Item690 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
The Virginia Tech 690 AUV is designed for bathymetric surveys. It has a side-scan sonar and a high-end navigation system.
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General ItemDragon AUV
The Dragon AUV is designed to tow very large payloads
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General ItemVirginia Tech Glider
The Virginia Tech Underwater Glider, designed, fabricated and field tested by Artur Wolek while working as a doctoral student under the guidance of Craig Woolsey.
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General ItemHigh Speed Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
The Virginia Tech High-Speed AUV is 3 inches in diameter and capable of speeds in excess of 15 knots. It was designed to operate heavy -- weight 50% greater than displacement. When not cruising at high speed, it can hover nose-down.
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General ItemJavelin Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
The Javelin AUV is designed to compete in the Shell Ocean XPRIZE competition and is part of the Virginia DEEP-X system.
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General ItemSelf-Mooring Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
The Self-Mooring AUV is can moor itself on the ocean floor.
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General ItemVirginia Tech Unmanned Surface Vehicle
The Virginia Tech unmanned surface vehicle is a fully autonomous 16' rigid hull inflatable boat.
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Laboratory
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The AUV Lab is housed in Whittemore Hall. It has all of equipment for design, fabrication, and testing of advanced AUV systems, including a 3D printer.
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The Nonlinear Sytems Laboratory (NSL) in the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering department at Virginia Tech provides a facility for research and instruction in dynamics and control of nonlinear systems.
Vessels
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Field work is accomplished using the lab's 19ft Carolina Skiff and 25.5ft Maycraft Pilothouse. Locally, we work at Claytor Lake, a 4,500 acre hydroelectric empoundment of the New River in Southwest Virginia. We also travel to the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico to fully exercise our autonomous vehicle systems.