As part of a recent visit to the University of Southampton the Duke of Kent and guests toured our maritime robotics and performance sports labs Building 176 -meeting Dr Joe Banks, Agata Tomaszewska, DrJon Downes and Sophia Schillae.

 

James Bowker and Cath Hollyhead used the wavemakers to demonstrate Fleur’s impressive wave crawling ability- just using wave energy to propel herself into and with the waves.

Commissioning of the tank instrumentation continues apace with recent tests on LDV, operation of the new rolling bridge as well as regular use of the Qualisys optical motion capture system.  The InnovateUK project led by PlanetOcean associated with the design of an ASV launchable AUV  ecoSUB has reached an important milestone with the recent vehicle’s  official launch at the NOC.  Soon after a prototype was being tested in the towing tank.