- drove ARTEMIS around under the sea ice near our camp
- tuned autonomous control loops and tested our new buoyancy-compensating feedforward control
- tested scripting of autonomous motions
- localized ARTEMIS from the surface using the magnetic tracking system
- displayed live science telemetry in the bot house
- docked ARTEMIS to the lighted docking bar under joystick control
- recovered ARTEMIS to the surface using the docking bar rigging
Here are some photos of the surface tracking operations led by Brian. Brian was pleased with the tracking system performance through the ice, and was able to localize ARTEMIS even at 35 m water depth. In these pictures, try to imagine 7 m of sea ice and brash ice underneath the feet of the tracking team, with ARTEMIS at 35 m water depth, and the bottom of the Ross Sea 700 m below.