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4 1. Introduction<br />

(Massachusetts, USA, http://www.dsl.whoi.edu ), Odissey IId belonging<br />

to the AUV Laboratory ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Tec hnology (Massachusetts,<br />

USA, http://auvlab.mit.edu ), ODIN III designed at the Autonomous<br />

Systems Laboratory of the University ofHawaii (Hawaii, USA,<br />

http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/∼ asl), Phoenix and ARIES, torpedo-like vehicles<br />

developed at the Naval Postgraduate School<br />

(California, USA, http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/research/auv/).<br />

Currently, very few companies sell AUVs; among the others: Bluefin<br />

Corporations ( http://www.bluefinrobotics.com) developed, in collaboration<br />

with MIT, different AUVs, such asBluefin 21, for deep operations up<br />

to 4500 m; C&C technologies ( www.cctechnol.com) designed Hugin 3000,<br />

able to run autonomously for up to 50 h; the Canadian ISE Research Ltd<br />

( http://www.ise.bc.ca) developed several AUVs such as, e.g, Explorer or<br />

Theseus; Hafmynd, inIceland, designed avery small AUV named Gavia<br />

( http://www.gavia.is); the Danish Maridan (http://www.maridan.dk)<br />

developed the Maridan 600 vehicle.<br />

Fig. 1.3. Sketch ofthe underwater vehicle-manipulator system SAUVIM, currently<br />

under development atthe Autonomous Systems Laboratory of the University of<br />

Hawaii (courtesy ofJ.Yuh)

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