The primary topic of my Masters Thesis was to design a wind-propelled autonomous surface vehicle (ASV), basically a robotic sailboat. The motivation was to explore solutions to obtaining oceanographic observations on a large spatial and temporal scale. The ultimate dream would be for me to sit at my desk and direct a fleet of ASV’s around the ocean to collect data without the need of a research vessel. It’s still far from being a reality, but is an exciting challenge nonetheless! Around the same time some buddies and I were interested in designing an ASV that uses cameras to navigate around obstacles. Using two cameras and some hobby store servos, we designed a technique we call the Chameleon Eye Navigation System (CENS). Check out the videos above or respective publications below for more details.

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The Law of Autonomous Vehicles

“If the number of deployments equals the number of retrievals, it’s been a good day!”

                                                                                                                -Dr. Hanu Singh

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