Engineers at Stanford and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have developed a system that allows AUVs to better anticipate obstacles in their path. The software system developed by Sarah Houts, a doctoral candidate in Stanford's Aerospace Robotics Laboratory, would for the first time allow vehicles to autonomously image twisting ravines and other hazardous topographical features. Until now, scientists could image these tricky spaces only by remotely steering a vehicle from aboard a ship.
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