NORFOLK, Va. — A portion of the Willoughby Boat Ramp in Norfolk will now help Old Dominion University Students and those within the maritime industry test their new technology.

“Autonomous systems in particular are very important because they take away the risk and the cost associated with having humans in places where maybe they shouldn’t be,” said Dr. Yiannis Papelis, the Chief Technology Officer for ODU’s Office of Enterprise Research and Innovation.

It is called the Maritime Autonomous Systems Test Site, or MASTS.

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“It effectively involves designing algorithms, testing and evaluating systems that operate on the water and they’re like wate

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