Overview
Muddy Waters is an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), respectively it can also be used as Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) with floatation bodies mounted on its side. In the ASV mode, it has additional payload compared to the AUV mode and it has also less drag, i.e., longer operation time. The first version, i.e., Muddy Waters I, was developed from 2009 on in the Co3-AUVs project where it was used among others for early work on Underwater Human Robot Interaction. From 2018 on, a second version with similar core design but completely updated electronics, sensors, and computation power was developed, which was used among others for underwater bridge inspection and which is still in use.
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