Teledyne Oceansciences Z-boat and Seafloor Systems Echoboat
The Center has also been given a Teledyne Oceansciences “Z-Boat,” and a Seafloor Systems “Echoboat,” each donated under the Center’s industrial partnership program. The Z-boat is equipped with an Odom CV100 single beam echo sounder, an Imagenex Delta T and Trimble GPS and heading system. The Echoboat has also has the Imagenex Delta T with an ArduPilot based control system and Applanix IMU and GNSS with compass for navigation. The Center has written interfaces to all of these vessels allowing them to be driven from the Center’s “Project 11” robotics framework, providing a convenient platform for shallow water survey and research into new behaviors and levels of autonomy for ASVs. These vessels have proven to be a very useful platform for prototyping and testing autonomous control algorithms.
Echoboat in rough waters.
Echoboat deployed during the Ryder Glacier expedition aboard the I/B Oden.
Z-Boat in open water.
