DepthX
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DepthX is an autonomous underwater vehicle, designed to explore deep caves. It is purported to be the most advanced vehicle of its kind on earth. Its primary function is observation, with a wide array of sensing devices all around its flattened spheroid hull. It is about seven feet in diameter, and designed to make its own decisions, rather than solely following instructions directly given from human observers.
DepthX is a SLAM machine, able to map the world around it, creating a 3D model in its "mind", in which it knows its own position at all times.
January 25-27, 2007 - The Advance DEPTHX Team based in Texas is surveying the world's largest sinkhole/cenote, Zacatón in Mexico.
Febrary 4-10, 2007 - Field operations at cenote la Pilita. DepthX run long autonomous missions to map the area and collect scientific data[1].
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