FAU grant for AUMV research

Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science has been awarded a $1.25M grant by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to undertake research in support of autonomous unmanned marine vehicles (AUMV) for coastal surveillance, surveys, target-tracking and protection of at-sea assets. The five-year project will entail developing unmanned surface vehicles that serve as "mother ships" for unmanned underwater vehicles and aerial drones, that enable multi-vehicle and multi-domain capability for mobile coastal monitoring, as well as training and education of graduate and undergraduate students in ocean engineering. The project will leverage and collaborate with FAU's ongoing Naval Engineering Education Consortium efforts with Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City, Fla., which involves use of two unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) for adaptive subsurface sensing in support of detection of objects on the sea bottom. (Source: Florida Atlantic 05/23/18)