Guided by the significant demands of national maritime scientific research, resource exploration, etc, and driven by the multidisciplinary innovative technologies, the Center for Innovative Marine Robotics conducts innovative research and development of cutting-edge technologies of marine robots and robotic networks for marine environmental monitoring, constructions and operations of networked marine robot systems for multiple applications, etc.

Main research areas:

• Long-range and modular autonomous underwater gliders
• Long-range and intelligent autonomous underwater vehicles
• Long-range autonomous surface vehicles driven by environmental energy
• Bionic, multi-body, and other new concept marine robots
• New principles of marine robots and key cuttingedge enabling technologies
• Networks of marine robots for environmental monitoring