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- noun Plural form of
AUV .
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Examples
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The so-called AUVs had first been tested in November 2008 by Harbor Branch scientists studying deep-ocean reefs off the Florida coast.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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A review by the BEA concluded that the AUVs did a good job and that the wreckage is most likely located in another area of the 46-mile circle around the last known location.
Robots enlisted in Round 4 of search for Flight 447 wreckage 2011
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The latest effort to find the jet — the $12.5 million cost of which is being split evenly by Airbus and Air France — hinges on three "autonomous underwater vehicles," or AUVs, that hit the water last Friday.
Robots enlisted in Round 4 of search for Flight 447 wreckage 2011
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Last year at this time, the AUVs were used to scan the ocean bottom to the north and west of the jet's last known coordinates.
Robots enlisted in Round 4 of search for Flight 447 wreckage 2011
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The AUVs sense when an undersea ridge or valley approaches, allowing the robots' guidance systems to rise and descend to follow the contour of the bottom, which is as much as 14,000 feet beneath the surface.
Robots enlisted in Round 4 of search for Flight 447 wreckage 2011
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Some scientists are using underwater robots like AUVs, they're called.
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Cameras can be mounted on tows, in Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), and Submersibles.
Seamount 2008
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The hope is that in the future propellerless, fish-like submarines could carry out a range of tasks, such as mapping oceans, surveying shipwrecks or sweeping for mines, with more agility and speed than current autonomous underwater vehicles AUVs controlled by propellers.
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These prototypes were able to recreate the cupping and sweeping motion but the motors made them too bulky, if scaled up, to be used on AUVs.
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Dr Tangorra said the team was now looking in even more detail at the bluegill sunfish to create propellerless AUVs.
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