Update on remotely operated vehicle research at the MIT man-machine systems laboratory

Research is underway at MIT on a variety of problems concerning the remote control of underwater vehicles and manipulators. This research is sponsored by Office of Naval Research and the MIT Sea Grant Program. Under investigation are topics pertaining to both tethered and untethered systems. In this paper, these efforts will be summarized and one particular project demonstrating manipulation techniques through simulated acoustic channels will be discussed.