Navy delves deeper into undersea robotics By the end of the
decade, the Navy plans to deploy squadrons of unmanned
underwater robots to survey the ocean. But there are a lot of
challenges operating underwater, and the robots will require a
great deal of autonomy to carry out search and mapping missions.
That’s the goal of the Adaptive Networks for Threat and
Intrusion Detection or Termination (ANTIDOTE) program. Funded by
the Office of Naval Research (ONR), ANTIDOTE’s team of
scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
the University of Southern California is developing software-
based methods for large teams of robots to perform more
sophisticated missions autonomously in dynamic, time-critical
environments and with limited communications. A major part of
the program focuses on autonomous planning and replanning
methods, said Marc Steinberg, ANTIDOTE’s program officer at ONR.
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