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
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
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
Adversarial Calibration Attack on Autonomous Vehicles
Liangkai Liu, Qingzhao Zhang, Kang G. Shin
2026
uScenes: A Multimodal RGB and 3D Sonar Dataset for Underwater Robot Perception
Trung Tien Dong, Zhenqi Wu, Aditya Penumarti +4 more
2026
Single-Beam Sonar Motion Deformation Compensation and Localization Method for Underwater Robots in Confined Waters.
Ding T, Xu Z, Liu X
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026