The Autonomous Vehicle Validation Experiment – Bermuda

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The Autonomous Vehicle Validation Experiment – Bermuda

1998

Bermuda

Autosub 1

The AVVEX (Autonomous Vehicle Validation Experiment) expedition took place aboard the RV Weatherbird II in the vicinity of the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series mooring (BATS).

Autosub 1 was equipped with sensors from Chelsea Instruments, SeaBird CTDs and a state-of-the-art turbulence probe that attached to the nose of the vehicle. This turbulence probe was provided by Dr Manhar Dhanak's group at Florida Atlantic University.