# Maritime Projects

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-projects/3506>\
**Category:** Marine Robotics\
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-projects/3506 "2017-12-21T20:13:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bsb808](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/bsb808/32/1525_2.png) [@bsb808](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/bsb808)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-projects/3506/1 "2017-12-21T20:13:59Z")

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Thank you to Musa for providing the first post to the interest group.

Following her lead, I’d encourage anyone to announce projects that might be of interest to this community.

For example, here are some of the projects we are following:

- [Ocean Systems Laboratory](http://osl.eps.hw.ac.uk/) provides some of their packages via [github](https://github.com/oceansystemslab), including auv\_msgs and a few maritime specific drivers.
- At NPS we are working towards a [USV/ASV](https://wiki.nps.edu/display/RC/Clearpath+Robotics+Kingfisher+USV) simulator to support the RobotX maritime competition. We recently ran a [tutorial](https://wiki.nps.edu/display/ROSSC/Robotics+Operating+System+Short-Course+Home) on using the tools.
- The [UWSim](http://wiki.ros.org/uwsim) underwater simulator.

If you are working on or using open-source projects that would benefit this group, please let everyone know.

Brian

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**Author:** ![musamarcusso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/musamarcusso/32/1536_2.png) [@musamarcusso](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/musamarcusso)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-projects/3506/2 "2017-12-22T12:35:55Z")

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There is also the [`freefloating_gazebo`](https://github.com/freefloating-gazebo/freefloating_gazebo) project that allows combining Gazebo’s physics engine with the rendering of UWSim developed by O. Kermorgant.