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  • Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory
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Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory

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Michigan Engineering Human Powered Sub team tests its design in the Marine Hydrodynamics Lab.
Photo: Laura Rudich, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing.

The Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory (MHL) is used in several group courses and for individual directed studies is located on the first floor of West Hall on main campus. Its facilities include:

  • Main model basin
  • Low turbulence free surface water channel
  • Gravity-capillary water wave tank
  • Propeller tunnel

Marine Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Michael Bernitsas, NAME and ME Professor, developed the Vortex Induced Vibrations for Aquatic Clean Energy (VIVACE) device to harvest energy from slow-moving bodies of water. Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering

The Marine Renewable Energy Laboratory (MRELab) is dedicated to developing technology to harness the abundant, clean, and renewable marine energy in an environmentally sustainable way and at a competitive cost. The current focus of the MRELab is to study the underlying science of the VIVACE Converter, which was invented in the MRELab (three patents pending) to harness the hydrokinetic energy of ocean/river currents/tides.


Perceptual Robotics Laboratory

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The Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PeRL) at the University of Michigan studies problems related to autonomous navigation and mapping for mobile robots in a priori unknown environments. The goal of this work is to enable robots with the ability to autonomously navigate and map their environment, recognizing previously visited places much as a human would. Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering

The Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PeRL) at the University of Michigan studies problems related to autonomous navigation and mapping for mobile robots with a focus on computer vision techniques for perceptual sensing.


Marine Structures Design Laboratory

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Mark Groden, NAME Researcher, demonstrates use of a 3D printable strain sensor. The sensor detects tiny flexing movements in metal parts of ships, which can alert crews to damage before cracks or other visuals signs can be seen by the naked eye. Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering

 

The Marine Structures Design Laboratory (MSDL) is a growing group of faculty and students focused on developing the next generation of structural design and analysis tools for the marine industry. Its ongoing work includes:

  • Creating rapid and accurate strength methods for lightweight aluminum marine structures
  • Building unique evolutionary optimization approaches for rapid trade-space exploration of structural designs
  • Developing novel tools to allow in-service re-assessment of structures and updatable forecasting of lifecycle cost, reliability, and capability.

Deep Robot Optical Perception Lab

The DROP (Deep Robot Optical Perception) Lab’s research goal is to develop robotic systems capable of operating in complex dynamic environments. To this end, we seek to expand and improve the perceptual capabilities of autonomous systems. Our work seeks to push the bounds of scale and resolution in 3D reconstruction, segmentation, data mining, and visualization for massive datasets gathered with robotic systems. We expect to continue to advance research in robotic perception, which we believe has the potential to develop new robotic task domains.


Real-time Adaptive Control Engineering Lab

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Jing Sun, Michael G Parsons Collegiate Professor and Chair of the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, the group’s research results with research assistant Richard Choroszucha.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering

Real-time Adaptive Control Engineering Lab (RACELab) was established by Professor Jing Sun to support advanced research and graduate education for marine system control and optimization. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art real-time simulation and control rapid prototyping technologies. An 8-node Opal-RT simulator and several programmable power supplies and loads form a reconfigurable platform for real-time simulation, control rapid prototyping and optimization algorithm validation. Two test-beds are currently housed in the RACELab: an all-electric ship power system simulator with fuel cell and gas turbine power emulators and a fully instrumented scaled model ship controlled by PC104 real-time system.


Computational Ship Hydrodynamics Laboratory

Streamwise velocity in an open-water propellor flow
Streamwise velocity in an open-water propellor flow

The Computational Ship Hydrodynamics Laboratory (CSHL), lead by Associate Professor Kevin Maki, pioneers the development of advanced methods and numerical algorithms for a wide range of ship flow problems including velocity decomposition, hydroelesticity and slamming, design for arctic operations, and design events in extreme seas.


Advanced Naval Concepts Research Laboratory (ANCR)

Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel  (WAM-V) testing
Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel (WAM-V) testing

The Advanced Naval Concepts Research Laboratory (ANCR) at the University of Michigan furthers the capabilities of naval vessel designers through educations, research, and support of existing Navy programs.

 

 

 

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