Why do we exist?
We exist to expand underwater research efforts by providing a home for underwater robotic vehicles.
Underwater robots are used, for example, for observing coral bleaching, thermal hot spots and overall, expanding our knowledge of the oceanic ecosystem.
With more than 80% of the ocean unexplored, or unmapped, the need to discover the rest of the ocean floor is great. The purpose of the resident blue team is to assist that exploration by developing a docking station that allows a 24/7, 1 month deployment of an autonomous underwater vehicle that can collect data, or research of it.
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Vision of the Resident Blue Underwater
docking station
Locally, the state of Hawai'i is constantly undergoing changes not only from on-land development but also within the surrounding waters. The use of RAUVs will increase the support of more extensive environmental assessments to research the potential impacts proposed projects will have on the ocean’s ecosystem. Therefore, the vision is to design and manufacture an universal underwater docking station (UUDS) for multiple RAUVs which shall provide a secure, wireless charging and wireless data transfer point between an RAUV and the docking station (DS). While, the mission of the Resident Blue team is to design and manufacture a UDS for a RAUV. This fully functioning system will provide a wireless charging and data transfer point between an RAUV and the DS. The station is to be deployed after December 2020 by the RAN lab at the KNO. KNO is located on the south shore of O'ahu at Kewalo Basin and is currently permitted to add the UDS to their working nodal system. Resident Blue is not responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the docking station but is however, keeping these two factors of a functioning station in mind for the design.