Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)

For JASON VII: Adapting to a Changing Sea, a Phantom S2 remotely operated vehicle provided by the National Undersea Research Center at University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus will be used.

Watch a movie of this ROV in Action (539 Kbytes mpeg).

During the JASON VI Expedition to Hawai`i, the Marsokhod, a remotely operated rover, designed by NASA and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace for potential exploration on the moon and Mars, was remotely controlled by students from PINS through EDS-managed networks.

Learn more about JASON, the rov

More Information

• Jason/Medea and ARGO-II: information from the from the Deep Submergence Operations Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• ROV Related Web Sites
• Read an article from the October 1994 issue of Technology Review on Down to the Sea in Robots by J. Robert Fricke
• MIT Sea Grant autonomous underwater vehicle Lab
• A Virtual World for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle - a dissertation by Donald Brutzman

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Todd Carlo Viola, JASON Foundation for Education (todd@jason.org)
Revised: 4 January 1995