Changing The Game in Underwater Exploration
Rhonda Moniz
February 2, 2012
The Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems or LAMSS at MIT is working on some of the most cutting edge technology in the industry. It is a collaboration between Scripps, the University of California in San Diego and MIT. Their research focuses on “the development of distributed ocean sensing concepts based on fully integrated Sensing, Modeling and Control, taking advantage of the environment and situational adaptation and collaboration with clusters of sensing nodes, without the direct need for operator control”. Sounds like a mouth full, but the technology they have been working on and continue to develop is astounding. Developing technology like SWAMSI or Shallow Water Autonomous Mine Search Initiative…