Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Lab
The AUV Lab at MIT Sea Grant was established in 1989 to develop highly capable and cost-effective autonomous underwater vehicles. It has developed multiple vehicle families including the Odyssey class and open-source platforms, while fostering partnerships with marine research institutions.
Notable achievements
Odyssey class AUV, Remote Explorer 4 (REx 4), Sea Beaver micro-UUV, spin-off Bluefin Robotics
Notable work
Recent publications
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A digital twin-empowered resilient path-following approach for non-holonomic autonomous vehicles under DoS attacks
Hunain Kaisar, Muhammad Rehan, Ijaz Ahmed +1 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Optimal design of supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle driven by heat pipe reactor under realistic constraints for underwater robotics
Shengyu Shen, Guofeng Fan, Menglin Zhao +2 more
Energy Conversion and Management · 2026
Bioinspired underwater robotics: Advances across the materials, design, control, and applications
Dilip Muchhala, Pramod Kumar Maurya, Adarsh Raut +3 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Latency-Aware Digital Twin-Assisted Cooperative Perception for Autonomous Vehicles
Boniface Uwizeyimana, Manobendu Sarker, Abraham O. Fapojuwo
2026
Swapping Faces, Saving Features: A Dual-Purpose Pipeline for Pedestrian Privacy in ITS
Roba H. Farouk, Catherine M. Elias
2026
Physically-informed modular transfer learning for cross-water-body water quality inversion using underwater RGB imagery.
Zhao B, Zhang A, Liu X +3 more
Water research · 2026