• Dr. Mathieu Kemp
  • Bluefin Robotics Corporation
  • 104D Surge Building
  • 4:00 p.m.
  • Faculty Host: Dr. Craig Woolsey

Increased maturity of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles and severe budget pressures within DoD is causing a scope explosion of UUV technology away from the traditional mine countermeasure and oil&gas survey missions. The presentation will discuss three active projects that illustrate this change: tracking of surface assets from extreme depths, dual-arm underwater manipulation, and UUV reference designs.

Biography:

Dr. Mathieu Kemp is the Director of Concept Development with Bluefin Robotics Corporation.  He holds a PhD in Physics (UNC-Chapel Hill), and has 15 years of experience in subsea robotics.

He was previously the Director of Concept Development with Nekton Research, where he developed the oscillating fin UUV (ONR), the Ranger micro-UUV (DARPA), the data bubble (ONR), and the expendable sonar array (PMS 403). Following Nekton, he returned to academia as a guest researcher at Duke University, where he developed array signal processing algorithms for acoustically-competent robots.  He joined Bluefin Robotics in 2010, and has since initiated research programs in ASW (DARPA), mine neutralization (ONR), and next-generation UUV design (DARPA).

Dr. Kemp holds five patents in underwater robotics, and is the author of 30 peer-reviewed articles.