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Marine Advanced Robotics, Inc. was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program to further develop collaborative algorithms for autonomous swarming of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs). The company's Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel technology provides a family of portable, foldable and energy-efficient USVs that can rapidly deploy and map predefined survey areas without existing infrastructure....

This federal Project Grant award of $1,265,561.00, issued by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research (CFDA 12.300) program, supports the development of advanced ocean bottom mapping and 3D photogrammetric technologies to enhance unmanned maritime vehicle navigation. The primary recipient, Concept To Capability Research LLC, is a for-profit limited liability company that specializes in cutting-edge research and development for defense-related...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $298,461 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the development of an autonomous underwater vehicle to measure marine snow transport. The goal of the project, running from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025, is to design, fabricate, and test an inexpensive (~$10K) self-ballasting underwater vehicle equipped with...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $118,677 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN AUTONOMOUS PROFILING VEHICLE FOR CONCURRENT ACOUSTIC, VISUAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS IN THE MESOPELAGIC OCEAN." The award runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will allow researchers at Stony Brook University, working through the university's Research Foundation, to develop an autonomous...

The University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories will receive $448,035 under a three-year Project Grant from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research to conduct the SEABED CHARACTERIZATION EXPERIMENT 2022. The grant is funded through the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which supports research with potential to improve naval operations and train future scientists and engineers. Specifically, the University of Texas at...

The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $715,490 Cooperative Agreement under the Ocean Exploration program (CFDA 11.011) to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for the period of Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2025. The project aims to develop artificial intelligence-integrated control algorithms and machine learning models to enable large-scale deployments of uncrewed underwater vehicles and expanded biological observations in the...

The Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers LLC (TDSX) will develop a compact underwater light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for integration into small remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) under a $128,918 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Phase I SBIR project will prove the feasibility of reducing the size and weight of a LIDAR system for internal installation in...

This $499,495 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of computational imaging solutions to facilitate underwater robotic tasks through September 2024. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the grantee George Mason University will develop a novel angularly sampled imaging system and algorithms to analyze nonlinear light transport in water, model underwater surface reflectance, and reconstruct three-dimensional...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $1,247,708.00, was issued by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant is funding Concept To Capability Research LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to conduct research and development on "Multi-Function Sonar Algorithm Development - Exploration of Sonar Resolution Space." The project, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to November 30, 2026, aims...

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded a $999,296 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to develop an autonomy testbed for heterogeneous unmanned vehicle systems (UVX) teams. The grant is funded through the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which supports research with potential to improve naval operations and train future researchers. Under the one-year award beginning...