Swarms of Ocean Robots will Drift in Synch (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Swarms of Ocean Robots will Drift in Synch

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To develop control systems for "swarms" of miniature robotic ocean explorers that could one day help predict where ocean currents will carry oil spills, engineers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering recently won a nearly $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The engineers are leading the development of the control systems for swarms of small, inexpensive, underwater robotic ocean drifters that researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego are designing, building and deploying.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego

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