a part of the NTNU SINTEF OceanLab-project

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The Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory (AURLab) was founded in 2009 and is an inter-faculty collaboration to promote the application and use of underwater robotics in basic engineering and research across a wide variety of scientific disciplines and industries.

AURLab is part of the Department of Marine Technology (IMT) with offices located at NTNU campus Moholt and Trondheim Biological Station (TBS). AURLab is part of the NTNU SINTEF OceanLab-project and Fjordlab.

AURLab develops and maintains a pool of robotic platforms for marine research, including Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles (AUVs and ASVs), and hybrids like a snake robot. 

A range of different sensors can be adapted to these vehicles to support a diverse range of scientific task.

The lab also owns an assortement of subsea equipment including sonars, echo sounders, underwater positioning systems, optical modems. Finally, AURlab has installed subsea infrastructure that is cabled to land. These include instrument rigs and docking stations. 

AURLab seeks to advance autonomous marine operations and provide infrastructure useful for marine research.