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MBARI's Brian Kieft Visit and Talk

marina — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:07:41 +0000

MBARI's Brian Kieft Visit and Talk

14 Jun 2017

News

Brian Kieft from MBARI will be visiting us, LSTS, in June, 16th.

The program includes a visit to the LSTS and a public talk at 14h30, in room E107 (DEQ), where he will present some of his work.

Short bio:

Brian Kieft

SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Brian Kieft has been an embedded software engineer at MBARI, in Monterey Bay, California, since 2006. He has worked on various platforms, including mooring controllers, benthic instruments, ASVs, and several AUVs and their associated payloads. Brian currently works on development of the Tethys AUV—a long-range, upper-water-column AUV designed primarily for biological sensing. Apart from development, Brian also takes part in mission planning and payload integration for ongoing collaborative field programs and engineering tests.

Third-generation Environmental Sample Processor to collect data in the Monterey Bay

marina — Mon, 22 May 2017 12:55:11 +0000

Third-generation Environmental Sample Processor to collect data in the Monterey Bay

22 May 2017

News

LSTS has collaborated with MBARI on several occasions, including the 2013 CANON initiative (http://lsts.fe.up.pt/blog/lsts-and-mbari-colaboration and http://lsts.fe.up.pt/blog/lsts-and-mbari-field-deployments-monterey-bay-california-october-2013 ), providing AUV´s, UAV´s and exchanging experiences in command and control of autonomous vehicles.

This spring MBARI is set out to take CANON another step further, deploying LRAUV´s (long-range autonomous underwater vehicles), one of which is equipped with third-generation Environmental Sample Processor (3G ESP) to collect environmental DNA. Hopefully this will help provide a better pictures of the environmental shifts in the Monterey Bay.

LSTS is proudly among the contributing research partners.

To learn more about this CANON edition, please visit: http://www.mbari.org/a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-marine-research/ and http://www.mbari.org/science/upper-ocean-systems/canon/

LSTS and MBARI field deployments in Monterey Bay, California October 2013

marina — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:56:31 +0000

LSTS and MBARI field deployments in Monterey Bay, California October 2013

07 Nov 2013

Missions

October 7th through the 18th, researchers from LSTS visited MBARI to participate in CANON (http://www.mbari.org/canon/default.htm) field experiments. Significantly this involved an LSTS Xtreme 2 AUV and associated communication gear being deployed in near shore waters in Monterey Bay along with other assets including ships and AUVs from MBARI. There were a number of objectives for this visit and experimentation:

1.     to participate and understand the scope, extant, design and intent of scientific upper water-column surveys for participating scientists from MBARI and elsewhere
2.     to demonstrate LSTS tools, techniques and processes (operational and technical) to MBARI personnel in robust and agile AUV operations
3.     to ensure continuous operations of AUV Xtreme 2 using the T-REX onboard controller
4.     joint testing with the MBARI Autonomous systems group towards coordination of AUVs with an MBARI owned Liquid Robotics WaveGlider carrying wireless hotspot capabilities necessary for the May 2014 Mola tagging experiment. The hotspot was built at MBARI, based on a reference design from LSTS's Manta gateway

All three objectives were fulfilled with successive Xtreme 2 AUV deployments from a small boat, the R/V Paragon and MBARI's Dorado AUV from the large support vessel R/V Rachel Carson. A significant outcome was related to the third objective coupled with the fourth, in which multiple deployments for 6-7 hours were undertaken where upper water-column surveys with captured Temperature data from the Xtreme's CTD were dumped onto the MBARI WaveGlider which in turn sent them to shore for archival and analysis within the ODSS (https://odss.mbari.org/odss/) the Oceanographic Decision Support System.

Further, the demonstrations showed how two AUVs in near proximity could maneuver and send their respective data to the WaveGlider. This involved ensuring that the respective AUV surveys were spatially separated and that each vessel was aware of the operating constraints and area of the other without significant communication overhead. Weather also played a role with a couple of days of washout with rough seas where the R/V Paragon was unable to go to sea.

A second clear outcome was the operational readiness of the use of T-REX on the Xtreme for continuous water-column surveys both along a static and a moving centroid. This demonstrates for the first time that the AUV will be in a position to track tagged Mola's in the planned May 2014 experiment in the Algarve.

A final outcome of this deployment was the demonstration of the advanced software tools for mission planning and control to MBARI researchers. An informal talk by Joao Sousa with Jose Pinto demonstrating Neptus caught the attention of a number of science and engineering personnel. A second and more through demonstration elicited substantial response from the MBARI community which hopes to leverage the Neptus tool set for their own operations.

LSTS and MBARI colaboration

marina — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:00:00 +0000

LSTS and MBARI colaboration

15 Oct 2013

Exercises

Since 2006 LSTS has been collaborating with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), California on several events, being one of the latest REP 13 with the T-REX integration on both AUV and UAV.

During this month, a research team from LSTS is taking part on CANON: Controlled, Agile, and Novel Observing Network, an ongoing MBARI initiative that aims to remotely collect a clearer image of the constantly changing oceanic conditions.

More news on this subject will be published soon.

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MBARI's Brian Kieft Visit and Talk

MBARI's Brian Kieft Visit and Talk

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Third-generation Environmental Sample Processor to collect data in the Monterey Bay

Third-generation Environmental Sample Processor to collect data in the Monterey Bay

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LSTS and MBARI field deployments in Monterey Bay, California October 2013

LSTS and MBARI field deployments in Monterey Bay, California October 2013

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LSTS and MBARI colaboration

LSTS and MBARI colaboration

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