Media from: Autonomous robot maps ship hulls for mines
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The MIT AUV (in yellow) is designed to swim around the complex structures on a ship's hull to detect small mines. The AUV navigated around the Nantucket Lightship in Boston Harbor during a test run in June 2011.
Photo: Brendan Englot
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Algorithms developed by MIT researchers enable an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to swim around and reconstruct a ship's propeller.
Image: Franz Hover, Brendan Englot
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