Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Resources

North America

USA:

• Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI), Lee, NH: a non-profit, independent research institute in Lee, New Hampshire, focuses on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and related systems.
  • Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (Home page)
  • Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute and Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology Consortium Working Group
  • Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL)

  AUSI also has ties to other institutions and industry, including Northeastern University's Marine Science Center, to the University of New Hampshire, and to the University of Maine's Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving (CDPS) Research Group.

• Bluefin, Cambridge, MA
  • Bluefin
    Bluefin is a company that licensed the technology developed at the MIT AUV Lab (Seasquirt, Odyssey I, Odyssey IIB, Odyssey III, Odyssey III extended, Bluefin 5000)

• C & C Technologies, Lafayette, LA [New!]
  • C & C Technologies
  • Hugin 3000 AUV, the world's first commercially operated AUV with capability to 3000 m
    developed in cooperation with Kongsberg Simrad, Norway

• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
  • The Robotics Institute
    • Project on autonomous navigation:  Navlab Project
    • Projects overview (autonomous systems, medical robots, virtual reality)
    • Robotics and Vision Sampler Page Index
    • Task Control Architecture (TCA): provides a framework and software utilities for building robot systems that need to combine deliberative and reactive control. TCA provides high-level support for distributed communications via message-passing, hierarchical task decomposition and sequencing, resource management, execution monitoring, and error recovery.
• Florida Atlantic University
  • Advanced Marine Systems Laboratory (Department of Ocean Engineering)
    This lab is dedicated to the R & D of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for military and scientific missions.
    • AUV home page: Ocean Voyager II, Ocean Explorer
    • A Passive Sonar System for UUV Surveillance Tasks, project geared towards enhanced understanding of shallow water ambient noise
  • Center for Acoustics and Vibration Sonar CHIRP Lab
    • Acoustic Modem: Objective is to provide cost effective, reliable, high data rate underwater communications in shallow water between a UUV and a surface support ship, between UUVs, and between a UUV and underwater instruments such as long baseline navigation systems and moored scientific instruments.
• Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, MD
  • JANUS, Johns Hopkins Autonomously Navigating Underwater System
• KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, Reston, VA
  • DRIP (Dinky Robot in Pool): autonomous underwater robot
• KOKES Marine Technologies, LLC., Lakewood, New Jersey
  • KOKES Marine Technologies, LLC.
    Autonomous inspection and research submarines for worldwide lease/charter to the offshore commercial & research industries
  • U.S. Corsair RS-1 and the U.S. Constellation RS-2
• Lockheed Martin company
  • High Performance Computing (HPC) Directorate of Sanders, Nashua, NH
    • Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV): The objective of the UUV program is to implement a scalable high-performance embedded signal processor for UUV applications.
• Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL), Lee, NH
  • Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL): MSEL research centers around intelligent ocean systems, in particular autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), especially intelligent AUV control, AUV control architectural issues, long-range AUV development for ocean science applications, and multiple-AUV systems and cooperative distributed problem solving.
    • EAVE-III,
      • EAVE Software Architecture
    • LRAUV - Long Range AUV
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • MIT Sea Grant (Home Page): The MIT Sea Grant College Program is one of 29 programs in the National Sea Grant Program network. MIT Sea Grant is also the home of The Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory, where small, unmanned robot submarines are designed, built and tested.
  • AUV Laboratory
    • AUV Lab vehicles: Odyssey IIb, CETUS, Odyssey I, Odyssey II, Sea Squirt
    • AUV Odyssey II
      • The Search for the Giant Squid (Kaikoura Canyon, New Zealand)
      • Haro Strait Tidal Front Mapping
    • Hermes Project: micro-AUV, dimensions 29"x 10.5" x 3.5"
    • Robo-Lobster: is a benthic micro-AUV that is being used to test biologically-inspired algorithms for AUV guidance using chemical signals. The vehicle is designed to mimic the basic features of a lobster relevant to chemical sensing and associated behaviors.
  • MIT Towing Tank
    • Charlie, the original RoboTuna: designed and built by David Barrett for his doctoral thesis, mimics the shape and motion of a small tuna.
      • The Tech Robotuna Project To Model Real Fish (by D. Isla, Oct 95)
    • RoboTuna II
  • AUV Publications / Technical Reports
  • Technology Review Online: Down to the Sea in Robots (R. Fricke)
  • Orca project (Winners of 1998 Int'l AUV Competition!), MIT Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team (group started by and run by students)
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Monterey, CA
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
    A unique private non-profit oceanographic institute with the goal of developing state-of-the-art equipment, instrumentation, systems and methods of scientific research in the deep waters of the ocean.
  • Underwater Robotics Project

• NASA Ames RC Intelligent Mechanisms Group, Moffet Field, CA
  • Telepresence Remotely Operated Vehicle (TROV) project
    is a remote operations experiment which is focused on testing virtual environment based teleoperations techniques.
    • TROV description (modified Phantom II)
    • Virtual Environment Vehicle Interface
    • Article: NASA New Underwater Rover Tested, Astrogram, 5-31-96

• Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center (NCCOSC)
  • Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Division (NRaD)
  • Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego
    • Robotics (see section on Unmanned Undersea Vehicles): DSSN, AUSS, ATV, EAVE, SCAT, etc.
    • Flying Plug
    • Free Swimmer (program inactive as of 1998)

• Naval Oceanographic Office
  • AUV Program
    Seahorse Class AUV, Semi-Autonomous Mapping System (SAMS), Lazarus

• Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, CA
  • Center for AUV Research (Home page)
  • Phoenix AUV
    • NPS Phoenix AUV Related Thesis Work (archives by abstract/author)
  • Virtual World for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
    (AUV virtual world software and documentation, papers, slides; by D. Brutzman)

• Naval Research Laboratory, Transmission Technology Branch
  • Submarine Communications (AUV communications)

• Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport Division
  Research and development involving autonomous Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) and key underwater technologies.
  • 21 and 26 inch diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
    (Technical details, as well as points of contact for each topic: Navigation, Low Speed Control & Hydrodynamic Simulation, Vehicle Controller, Intelligent Controller, Variable Ballast System, Acoustic Communications, Thrust Vectored Pump Jet, Motor.)

• Northeastern University, Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA
  • Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program

• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  • Underwater Vehicle Dynamics & Control Lab

• Sias/Patterson, Inc., Gloucester Point, VA
  • Fetch!(r) AUV
    SPI developed a commercial, multipurpose, networkable AUV using off-the-shelf components, that is programmable by non-experts in robotics.

• Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  • Aerospace Robotics Laboratory
    • Underwater Robotics: OTTER (Ocean Technology Testbed for Engineering Research) vehicle (also, information on Critical Technologies Experimental Platforms, Experimental Demonstrations to Date, Experimental Demonstrations in Progress )

• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  • The Machine Intellignce Lab
    • SubJugator AUV (Placed second in AUVSI underwater competition 1999!)

• University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
  • Autonomous Systems Laboratory
    • AUV ODIN (Omni Directional Intelligent Navigator)
    • Technical Reports, Autonomous Systems Laboratory (contact: dr. J. Yuh)
    • IGW Graphics Simulation of ODIN
    • Pictures and documentation about ODIN (under construction)
      

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • RALPH (Ogasawara, G.H., Russell, S.J., "Real-time, decision-theoretic control of an autonomous underwater vehicle.") - this is a part of the Comparative Reference of Cognitive Architectures
  • RALPH-MEA controlled an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), providing a testbed. It allowed exploration of obstacle avoidance and surveying, but did not include any manipulation of the environment.

• University of Maine, Orono, ME
  • Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving (CDPS) Research Group
    Primary domain is cooperative problem solving by groups of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Ongoing research projects in intelligent AUV control, communication between autonomous agents, and coordination of problem solving by groups of autonomous agents.
  • CDPS Research Projects page
    • Multiple AUVs MAUV/CoDA project
    • Orca Project Home Page
      The Orca project's goal is to create an intelligent, robust, adaptive controller for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The program will be used first on the MSEL EAVE (Experimental Autonomous VEhicle) AUVs and on MSEL's long-range AUV (LRAUV).
    • Orca: Intelligent Adaptive Reasoning for AUV control
    • CDPS Group Publications (list, papers, slides, download PostScript/HTML; as of 9/97)
    • Students' Theses

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP)
    • GRASP Lab Research Projects (list of projects; for each an abstract and list of related publications is given)
  • Subsea Teleprogramming
    The motivation for this research comes from a desire to perform subsea manipulative tasks under operator control via an acoustic communications link.

• University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
  • Center for Ocean Technology, Marine Science Department
    Designing and building AUV sensors for oceanographic research. Sensors have been deployed on FAU Ocean Voyager and Ocean Explorer and SOC Autosub. Deploying sensors on REMUS and Odyssey follows.

• University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
  • Robotics and Automation Laboratory
    • Autonomous Underwater Vehicle project
      (programs for collision avoidance and object recognition)
    • 1996 Technical Reports
      (AUV-related: TR-96-1-1, TR-96-1-2, TR-96-1-7, TR-96-1-8, TR-96-2-1)
    • 1997 Technical Reports
      (AUV-related: TR-97-1-24)
    • 1998 Technical Reports
      (AUV-related: TR-98-1-2)

• Woods Hole Oceanographics Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    A private, independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to research and higher education at the frontiers of ocean science.
  • Deep Submergence Laboratory
    • Underwater Vehicles
      •  ROV Jason/Medea, ARGO-II
      • Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE)
        designed to address the need for long term monitoring of the seafloor.
  • Oceanographic Systems Laboratory
    • REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS) (low cost UUVs designed for coastal monitoring and multiple vehicle survey operations)

Canada:

• International Submarine Engineering, Ltd., Vancouver
  • International Submarine Engineering, Ltd.
  • International Submarine Engineering Research, Ltd.
    • AUVs: ARCS AUV, semi-submersible Dolphin (a.k.a. U.S. Navy operated Orca), Theseus AUV, Dorado, Aurora
      download a [ ISE AUVs brochure ] (PDF, 560k)
    • modular AUV design Explorer

• Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
  • Underwater Research Laboratory
    AUVs: PURL (Probe for the Underwater Research Laboratory), PURL II, Ray, Sunfish

• University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
  • Space and Subsea Robotics Lab
    research in dynamics of AUVs, animation of AUVs, fault-tolerant control of AUVs
• Institute for Marine Dynamics of the National Research Council of Canada
  • C-SCOUT, Canadian Self-Contained Off-the-shelf Underwater Testbed Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, a joint project between the Institute for Marine Dynamics of the National Research Council of Canada (IMD-NRC) and the Ocean Engineering Research Centre at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (OERC-MUN).

Europe

Denmark:

• Department of Automation (IAU), Technical University of Denmark
  • Use of Sonar for Underwater Inspection (AUV Martin)
• Maridan ApS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

France:

• French Research Institute in Computer Science and Automatic Control - INRIA (Instutut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)
• The French Institute of Research and Exploitation of the Sea - IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer)
  • VORTEX (Versatile and Open subsea Robot for Technical EXperiment) (extending current ROV platform towards AUV)
• Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier - LIRMM
  • TAIPAN AUV (Torpedo for Active Inspection, Piloting and Autonomous Navigation)
• Société ECA S.A., Groupe FINUCHEM [New!]
  Underwater minewarfare, underwater targets, deep sea oceanography

Germany:

• German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Sankt Augustin
  • Autonomous Intelligent Systems Team Underwater Robots (UWE)
  • GMD - Japan Research Laboratory
• Robotics in Germany (list maintained by Uwe Zimmer)
• STN Atlas DeepC - the German initiative for AUVs [New!]
  The objective of the DeepC project is to develop a containerized AUV system whose underwater vehicle can be launched from a floating carrier platform, from land or from a helicopter.

Iceland:

• Hafmynd - Autonomous Underwater Monitoring [Updated!]
  GAVIA AUV: small, low cost AUV, suitable for marine monitoring, surveillance and research

Italy:

• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-IAN) Robotics Department, Genova
  The Robotics Department at CNR-IAN was set up in 1989 to advance understanding in marine robotics, particularly concerning Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) and tele-operated systems. Areas of research: Intelligent Control, Navigation Control, Acoustic Localization & World Modeling, Underwater Manipulation.
  • AMADEUS Project (Advanced Manipulation for Deep Underwater Systems)
  • ROBY, ROBY 2, and ROMEO UUVs (tehthered ROVs)
  • SARA Project (Sottomarino Autonomo Robotizzato Antartico)

Norway:

• Motion Control Group, Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology
  • Tip: lists of publications are available at team's members' pages (e.g. T. Fossen)
• Modeling, Identification and Control Bulletin, published by The Research Council of Norway (tables of content and ordering information)
• Norwegian Underwater Intervention (NUI) Explorer
  NUI Explorer is an untethered underwater vehicle for cost-efficient collection of high quality survey data. Pre-programmed mission and an acoustic command link for mission adjustments from surface vessel.
• Kongsberg Simrad Hugin 3000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
  Hugin 3000 was developed in cooperation with C & C Technologies, Louisiana, USA [Updated!]

Portugal:

• Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
  The Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) is a portuguese private, non-profit research institution that promotes advanced multidisciplinary R&D in the areas of Robotics, Automation and Control, CIM, Signal Processing, Aeronautics, Physical Acoustics and Energy Production and Management.
• Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Laboratory
• FTP server: Dynamic model of the Marius AUV

Sweden:

• The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle page, University of Uppsalla
  Design and develop prototypes for the path planning and mission management systems, which have no direct correspondence in manned submarines. Collaborating with Kockums Submarine Systems AB. [Project terminated]

United Kingdom:

• Ocean Systems Laboratory, Heriot-Watt University
  • Projects main page
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (ANGUS 001-003, ROVER AUV)
  • 6-DOF verified Underwater Vehicle Matlab model (ANGUS ROV)
  • AUV hardware in the loop simulation:
    • Core Simulation Engine - CoreSim Homepage
    • TUUV2 - CoreSim main page
    • TUUV2 - project description and current work
  • FLAPS - AUV Efficient propulsors using fish swimming mechanism
  • AUV sonar intepretation and obstacle avoidance: CLASS, ARAMIS
  • AMADEUS - Subsea dextrous manipulation
  • Digital Signal Processing in Sonar Imaging
  • Imaging sonar data sets for analysis
  • Through water communication (channel modelling) (PROpagation channel SIMulator PROSIM, CEC MAST III)
• University of Southampton, ISIS group
  • Neptune Project, multivariable, neurofuzzy network controller for application to an AUV
  • Research projects list.
• Southampton Oceanography Centre
  • Natural Environment Research Council Autosub Science Missions Thematic Programme
  • Autosub AUV
• Technology for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Programme (academic and industry partners), Funded by EPSRC and the Centre for Marine and Petroleum Technology, October 1997-September 1999.

Asia

Japan:

• Underwater Robotics and Application Laboratory, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
  • Twin Burger: Development of a Versatile Test-Bed "Twin-Burger" toward Realization of Intelligent Behaviors of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • ALBAC, a shuttle type prototype autonomous underwater vehicle
  • PTEROA150, PTEROA250 , deep (2000m-6000m) sea AUV
  • R1 project
  • Robot research : a list of AUVs and research topics including vision systems for underwater robots, AUV controllers and multi-vehicle simulator
• Kato Laboratory (Underwater Robotics Laboratory), University of Tokai
  • Flipper, Aqua Explorer 1000
• Robotics in Japan (list maintained by Uwe Zimmer)

Singapore:

• NTU AUV, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore [New!]

Australia

• Robotic Systems Lab, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Kambara AUV

• Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Sydney
  • Oberon AUV

Other AUV-related links:

• Subsea Oil & Gas Directory [New!]
• Hydro- and Aerodynamics of Animal Swimming and Flight (by G. R. Spedding)
• GMD-Snake: Robot-Snake with Flexible Real-Time Control
• SONAR Research and Development Sites: Underwater (Virtual Library)
• ROVnet - ROV's & Underwater Technology Information and articles on all subjects relating to Remotely Controlled Vehicles and associated Underwater Equipment
• WTEC Panel Report on Submersibles and Marine Technologies in Russia's Far East and Siberia, August 1996
• WTEC Panel Report on Research Submersibles and Undersea Technologies in Russia, Ukraine, and Western Europe, June 1994
• Robotics Internet Resources Page

Organizations, Societies, Upcoming events:

• Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  • Underwater Robotics Technical Committee
• IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE/OES)
• International Federation of Automatic Control
  • Technical Committee on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles
• Marine Technology Society (MTS)
• National Sea Grant
• CORDIS: EESD - Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development is one of the four thematic programmes of the Fifth European Commision (EC) RTD Framework Programme (1998-2002). (Umbrella program for sucessor of MAST III)
• European Unmanned Vehicle Systems Association [free registration]
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase
• Undersea Defense Technology, Conference and Exhibition (Europe, Pacific, Hawaii, Korea)

• IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Newsletters
• ROV Committee of the Marine technology Society
• http://www.oceanspace.net/, a free online marine science and ocean technology newsletter
• Underwater Magazine, articles from back issues

Events 2002:

• UI 2002: Underwater Intervention, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 27 -- March 3, 2002
• 15th IFAC Congress on Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002
• MED 2002, 10th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Lisbon, Portugal, July 9-13, 2002
• UUVS 2002, The Third Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase, Southampton Oceanography Centre, U.K., September 25-26, 2002
• MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2002, Gulf Coast Coliseum and Convention Center, Biloxi, Mississippi, October 28-31, 2002
• Underwater Technology 2002, Tokyo, Japan, April 16-19, 2002

Past events (2001, 2000, 1999 & 1998):

2001:

• UI 2001: Underwater Intervention, Tampa, Florida, January 15-17, 2001
• Autonomous artificial systems exploring hostile environments, American University of Dubai, U.A.E., March 18, 2001
• MED 2001 - The 9th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 27-29, 2001
• AUVSI's 4th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, July 11-15, 2001
• Control Applications in Marine Systems, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., July 18-20, 2001
• AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2001, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July 31-August 2, 2001
• UUST 2001, The 12th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, Durham, New Hampshire, USA, August 27-29, 2001
• AUV FEST 2001, US Navy (NAVO/ONR), Gulfport, Mississippi, October 2001 (Contact: Mr. Brian Campbell)
• MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2001, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI, November 5-8, 2001

2000:

• UI 2000: Underwater Intervention, Houston, Texas, January 24-26, 2000
• UUV 2000: Unmanned Undersea Vehicles Symposium, Newport, RI, April 24-28, 2000
• ICRA 2000, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, California, USA, April 24-28, 2000
• UT '00: Underwater Technology 2000, Tokyo, Japan, May 23-26, 2000
• PACON 2000: Ninth Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 5-9, 2000
• WAC 2000, Symposium on Underwater Robotic Technology, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, USA, June 11-16, 2000
• Unmanned Systems 2000, Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando, Florida July 11- 13, 2000
  
  • AUVSI's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, July 7-10, 2000
    
• EurOCEAN 2000 - The European Conference on Marine Science and Ocean Technology, Hamburg, Germany, August 29 - September 2, 2000
• MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2000, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September 11-14, 2000

1999:

• Underwater Intervention '99, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 18-20, 1999
• Oceanology International 99 Pacific Rim, Singapore, April 27 to 29, 1999
• PACON 99: Regional Symposium on Humanity and the World Ocean, Moscow, Russia, 23-25 June 1999
• UnderSea Explorations '99 , Portland, Oregon, USA, June 7-10, 1999
• Conference on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (LESCOAUV'99), (part of the Large Engineering Systems Conference Series) World Trade & Convention Centre; Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada; 20-22 June 1999
• AUVSI'99: 26th Annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July 12 - 16, 1999
• UUST '99: 11th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, Durham, New Hampshire, USA, August 22 - 25, 1999
• MTS/IEEE OCEANS '99, Seattle, Washington, September 13-16, 1999

1998:

• IARP 1998 International Advanced Robotics Programme First International Workshop on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Shallow Waters and Coastal Environments, Lafayette, LA, February 17-19, 1998
• IAV 98: 3rd IFAC Symposium on intelligent autonomous vehicles, Madrid, Spain, March 25-27, 1998
• ICRA'98: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May 16-21, 1998 (see sessions on Underwater Robotics)
• AUVSI 98: 25th Annual AUVSI Symposium, Huntsville, Alabama, June 8-12, 1998
• AUVSI and U.S. Office of Naval Research 1st Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, Naval Coastal Systems Station, Panama City, FL, August 1-3, 1998
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - AUV'98, Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 20-21 Aug, 1998
• MTS/IEEE OCEANS 98 - Engineering for Sustainable Use of the Oceans, Nice, France, 28 Sept - 1 Oct, 1998
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK, September 2-3, 1998
• IFAC Workshop Control Applications in Marine Systems, Fukuoka, Japan, October 27-30, 1998
• MTS Ocean Community Conference, Baltimore Convention Center, Maryland, November 16-19, 1998