Open research from Black Anchor — marine drones, underwater vehicles, sonar and marine AI.https://www.blackanchor.fr/en-ushttps://www.blackanchor.fr/research/pressure-housing-100m/https://www.blackanchor.fr/research/pressure-housing-100m/PVC, acrylic and epoxy versus 11 bar of seawater: how we designed, potted and destructively tested the electronics housing for the Lamprey micro-AUV.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTUnderwater Vehiclesauvmechanicaltestinghttps://www.blackanchor.fr/research/yolo-jetson-buoy-detection/https://www.blackanchor.fr/research/yolo-jetson-buoy-detection/Training and deploying a YOLOv8n model on a Jetson Orin Nano to detect buoys, boats and swimmers from the Remora surface drone — with the glare, spray and horizon problems nobody's dataset includes.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarine AImarine-aiusvvisionhttps://www.blackanchor.fr/research/ardurover-usv-tuning/https://www.blackanchor.fr/research/ardurover-usv-tuning/From zig-zag shame to straight lines: parameter-by-parameter tuning of ArduPilot Rover for the Remora surface drone — steering rate, L1 navigation, speed control and what wind does to all of it.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSurface Dronesusvardupilotautonomyhttps://www.blackanchor.fr/research/cheap-echosounder-mapping/https://www.blackanchor.fr/research/cheap-echosounder-mapping/Hacking the NMEA output of a consumer echosounder into a survey-grade-ish depth logger: transducer mounting, sound velocity, tide correction and turning half a million pings into a depth map.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSonar & Sensingsonarusvmappinghttps://www.blackanchor.fr/research/acoustic-modem-experiments/https://www.blackanchor.fr/research/acoustic-modem-experiments/Radio dies centimetres below the surface. First attempts at low-rate underwater acoustic communication with piezo transducers, chirp modulation and a lot of multipath disappointment.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTUnderwater Vehiclesauvacousticscommunications