Robotics capital moves — 8–14 June 2026 - 2026-06-08 - Article - Funding rounds, acquisitions and other capital transactions across robotics, autonomous systems and their enabling technologies.
Research
OtterROS: Picking and Programming an Uncrewed Surface Vessel for Experimental Field Robotics Research with ROS 2 - 2024-04-08 - Research Publication - OtterROS provides an open ROS 2 integration, hardware modifications and example control software developed through two years of field work with a Maritime Robotics Otter USV. - source: arxiv.org
Leveraging digital twins for fault diagnosis in autonomous ships - 2024-01-15 - Research Publication - An adaptive-EKF digital twin diagnoses propulsion faults from ship sensor data and is evaluated numerically and on a physical Maritime Robotics Otter. - source: doi.org
Digital Twin-Driven Fault Diagnosis for Autonomous Surface Vehicles - 2023-04-20 - Research Publication - An Otter digital twin and adaptive extended Kalman filter estimate a deliberately faulty propeller's severity from GNSS and control data and visualize it in a web interface. - source: doi.org
Hijacking of unmanned surface vehicles: A demonstration of attacks and countermeasures in the field - 2022-03-07 - Research Publication - Five Otter field experiments demonstrate heading, position and replay attacks against vessel control traffic and test authenticated-encryption countermeasures. - source: doi.org
Five-State Extended Kalman Filter for Estimation of Speed over Ground (SOG), Course over Ground (COG) and Course Rate of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs): Experimental Results - 2021-11-27 - Research Publication - Otter simulation and Trondheim field trials evaluate a five-state EKF that derives speed, course and course rate from low-cost GNSS position measurements. - source: doi.org
Vision-based positioning system for auto-docking of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) - 2021-08-10 - Research Publication - An Otter USV uses cameras, LiDAR, learned dock detection and fiducial geometry for close-range position estimation during autonomous docking trials. - source: doi.org
Shallow-Water Habitat Mapping using Underwater Hyperspectral Imaging from an Unmanned Surface Vehicle: A Pilot Study - 2019-03-21 - Research Publication - An Otter USV carries a submerged hyperspectral imager and precision navigation sensors to map benthic habitat along repeated shallow-water survey tracks. - source: doi.org