Ripples: A tool for oceanic campaign managing, supervision, and situational awareness

Several entities are at the forefront of combining ocean exploration and monitoring with robotics; among them is the LSTS (Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory) 1 . This laboratory specializes in designing, constructing, and operating unmanned underwater, surface, and air vehicles and developing their software. The LSTS uses several autonomous vehicles to monitor and map the ocean to achieve persistent and efficient ocean observation. These vehicles, although autonomous, are not self-sufficient and need human supervision. When deploying these vehicles, it is common to have multiple teams geographically separated due to the multidisciplinary cooperative nature of these missions, so they need to be able to control these vehicles and communicate efficiently. In this paper, we present one such tool used for this purpose.