Understanding the Arctic | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Navigating beneath the Arctic ice

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A team of engineers from MIT developed a navigational method for autonomous vehicles to navigate accurately in the Arctic Ocean without GPS. The technology was demonstrated during a U.S. Navy Arctic Exercise in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and General Dynamics Mission Systems using a Bluefin®-21 UUV.

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Professor Henrik Schmidt and members of the LAMSS group develop an autonomous vehicle that can navigate under the Arctic ice with GPS accuracy.

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A team of MIT engineers and naval officers led by Professor Henrik Schmidt developed a navigational method for autonomous vehicles to navigate accurately in the Arctic Ocean without GPS.