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Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen is a Norwegian engineer whose research involves nonlinear control theory and its application to controlling the motion of both watercraft and snakebots. She is a professor of engineering cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the founder of Eelume AS.
The Orca is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that is under development by Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) for the United States Navy.
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Statoil is working with Eelume, a Norwegian underwater robotics company, on developing a snakelike swimming robot that can both inspect and carry out easy repairs on subsea infrastructure such as pipes.
- 1 2 3 4 Addison, Velda (March 29, 2017). "Eelume Aims To Go Deeper With Robotic Subsea Snake". Hart Energy.
- ↑ Liljebäck, Pål; Mills, Ricard. "Eelume: A Flexible and Subsea Resident IMR vehicle". Kongsberg Maritime.
- ↑ Atherton, Kelsey D. (February 17, 2017). "Watch a snake robot wriggle through a Norwegian fjord". Popular Science.
Once outfitted, the robots can settle into their watery home: Eelume AS designed them to stay underwater permanently, in a little docking station on the bottom of the sea. From there, they can swim out to inspect and repair undersea infrastructure, like pipelines or oil rigs, without any concern about the weather above the ocean's surface.
- ↑ Nilsen, Kjersti Lunden (20 December 2019). "Subsea "Snake Robot" Inventor Wins Prestigious Cybernetics Prize". Maritime Executive.
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