The aim of my work is to creative innovative tools expanding the ability of ocean science for exploring, understanding and protecting the marine environment. To accomplish this I pursue projects on precise underwater navigation, applications of autonomous vehicles and the integration of diverse sensors for environmental assessment. Advances in these areas require research in a variety of topics: dynamics, control, estimation, acoustic signal processing, probabilistic robotics, instrumentation and mechatronics.

The ultimate goal of my work is to deploy these systems in the field to do new science. Toward this end I continue to participate in oceanographic expeditions around the world through an ongoing collaboration with the Deep Submergence Laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

• Precision underwater navigation
• Autonomous system development for homeland security and environmental monitoring
• Marine instrumentation
• Bio-inspired underwater navigation

• The Deep Submergence Lab @ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution {Andy Bowen, Rich Camilli, Brendan Foley, Mark Grosenbaugh, Hanu Singh, Dana Yoerger}
• DeepArch (David Mindell)
• Ryan Eustice @ Univ. of Michigan
• Ballard Blair @ MIT/WHOI Joint Program
• Ian Ingram - Carnegie Mellon
• The Ocean Institute