Patterson Lab

The Patterson lab works to develop autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing and decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates while studying environmental fluid mechanics,biomechanics, and mass transfer in living systems.

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  • Mark Patterson

    I direct the Field Robotics Laboratory (FRL). We design and build free-swimming marine robots, and new kinds of sensors and systems for ecophysiology. I have always loved marine ecology and biomechanics, because they are so interdisciplinary. Inspired by Ken Sebens and the late Steven Vogel and Tom McMahon, I like asking questions that require new […]