This "Maritime Sensing & Autonomy" collection brings together Stanford technologies that cover the maritime sensing stack: locating, profiling, feeling, hearing and analyzing in ocean and underwater environments.
The collection includes optical whiskers that give robots touch sensing when underwater visibility is poor, alignment-tolerant MEMS interferometers for large hydrophone arrays, and an immersible, networked ammonia sensor for distributed water monitoring. Together, these technologies reduce dependence on vessels and field visits and support more capable autonomous ocean operations.
Key investigators include Mark Cutkosky, William Tarpeh, Debbie Senesky, Barbara Block, Zerina Kapetanovic, and Dustin Schroeder.
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S18-066 Rapid Surface Fixes for Marine Assets
- A low-power GNSS tag shifts position processing off-device, so ocean assets can report their location during brief surfacing windows.
- Inventor: Barbara Block.
S25-564 Drone-Deployed Profiles for Hard-to-Reach Waters
- A lightweight conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) profiler that drones can deploy extends ocean measurements to remote, hazardous, and polar waters.
- Inventors: Zerina Kapetanovic and Dustin Schroeder.
For more information on these technologies, reach out to otl-connect@stanford.edu.