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AUVs low predetermined waypoints. There often there wasn’t even from different nations, different vendors and different govern- the payload processing power on-board to do anything else ment sponsored laboratories.

beyond following waypoints. The crucial paradigm shift was Hell Bay 4 was run in conjunction with The Technical Co- to move away from waypoints and into autonomy. Autonomy operation Program and became a big part of the Unmanned means that the success or the failure of the entire