AEC Seed Grant awarded to Hub Deputy Director

POSTED: 29 Aug, 2024

Congratulations to our Deputy Director, Prof. Stefan Williams and team, notably Dr. Lachlan Toohey on being awarded an Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) Seed Grant to fund the testing stage of their Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). The AUV can hover above the seafloor to collect better data in difficult conditions. It is designed for use in environmental surveys of offshore infrastructure assessments (such as windfarms), scientific data collection and various defence applications. AEA supports Australian researchers to get their ideas off the whiteboard and into a commercial future.