The NTNU Fish Otter is a small unmanned catamaran propelled by two electrical fixed thrusters. The hull is based on the Maritime Robotics Otter, along with an interface card for thrusters, batteries and power management. A custom hardware and software design has been integrated for the vessel in order to allow full system control based on the LSTS toolchain.

The goal for the vehicle is to provide a platform that can autonomously carry a hydrophone to wherever it is needed and collaborate with other Otters performing multilateration to position the tag. On the way to reach this goal, the Otter project will have to solve multiple problems like collision avoidance, multi-vehicle autonomous coordination, covering search algorithms etc. all while operating in an unpredictable ocean environment.

This wiki is maintained by Nikolai Lauvås, Master student at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU.