Can we measure gravity from a robot flying 65 meters above the seafloor, 5,600 meters down?

This summarizes a recent publication on work we did this March integrating a new gravimeter with AUV Sentry, which you can read here. The project was led by Masako Tominaga, Maurice Tivey, and Sean Kelley, and brought together people from WHOI, Lamont-Doherty, and Dynamic Gravity Systems. If you followed along with my Mariana Trench fieldwork earlier this year, this is one of the things we were up to.

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Can a scientist plan a deep-sea robot mission themselves, without learning to program it?

This summarizes a recent publication, which you can read here. It builds directly on the cognitive teleoreactive framework I’ve been developing for AUV Sentry: that work gave Sentry the ability to reason about goals, and this work is about giving people a way to hand it those goals. Two open-source packages are released alongside it, which I’ll get to below.

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