Last week the team went to visit the Marine Advanced Systems and Technology (MAST) laboratory at the Port of Hueneme. The port is one of the largest on the west coast, and is a major thoroughfare for ...Read More
Our research team has been gaining more and more attention at Cal State Channel Islands in recent months, leading to interesting and unique opportunities popping up all over! Most recently, the pres...Read More
After our trip to the Cook Islands, only one of our four ROVs were functioning. Then there was the issue of nearly half of our team having graduated, leaving only a few students that are able...Read More
Our array of 3D printers in the AARR laboratories allow us to print replacement parts of create new capabilities by generating new parts we have brainstormed. Rather than sending some schematic off t...Read More
The 6 kg (13 lb) Puma is hand-launched, has a typical effective flight time of around 45 minutes, and then hard lands upon water where it can be quickly recovered and prepped for relaunch within in fe...Read More
This has been an exciting week! We recently moved into our new lab space at Sierra Hall, and this week was the grand opening. The opening ceremony was led by the university's president, Dr. Rush, and ...Read More
Our friends up at OpenROV have (almost) formally opened up their new Kickstarter project to fund their next generation ROV named Trident. This was the unit vetted this summer up in Lake Tahoe....Read More
We have successfully returned from our trip to the Cook Islands! The team continued on collecting data, right up to the very last hours before the plane departed from Aitutaki. Paul, Chris and Guy spe...Read More
I may have spoken a bit too soon about having stable internet! The heavy work load, coupled with a very congested, slow and often unavailable internet connection has led to slow posting. Two of the ma...Read More
After having a successful trial of the bio-fluorescence sensor package for the ROV, we made some adjustments to the payload. We improved the balance and the lights and did three 50 meter zig-zag night...Read More