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SUNFISH® is a person-portable, 6-degree-of-freedom hovering vehicle with built-in precision navigation and control, multibeam mapping, imaging, and CTD capabilities. Building on this base functionality, Stone Aerospace developed high-level capabilities for performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), exploration, path planning, and precision docking.

SUNFISH demonstrated the capability to autonomously explore the unstructured labyrinthine 3D environment of Peacock Springs in northern Florida, USA, creating a real-time map with which it navigated through the complex. SUNFISH penetrated 120 m into the caves and was able to autonomously find its way back to the deployment location. The capabilities developed for SUNFISH also have direct application to general inspection, monitoring, and survey tasks, as well as providing a basis for the types of autonomous vehicles that will explore where humans cannot go.

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