OceanScale

The ocean simulator for underwater robotics

A controllable, reproducible virtual ocean that accelerates development, testing, validation, and deployment iteration for underwater robots.

The ocean is nota training ground

Every real-ocean validation run is gated by weather, vessels, crew, currents, deployment gear, and hardware risk. The iteration cycle for underwater robots is locked to the pace of the ocean.

Weather windows uncontrolled
Vessels + crew day-rate cost
Failure cost weeks lost

Virtual Ocean

OceanScale brings hydrodynamics, ocean environments, sensors, robot interfaces, and training/evaluation pipelines into one GPU-native runtime for large-scale training, testing, failure replay, and real-ocean validation.

Inputs

Robot Models AUVs / ROVs / gliders / manipulators
Ocean Conditions Current, visibility, terrain, disturbance
Mission Goals Docking, holding, inspection, search
GPU-native runtime Virtual Ocean Runtime
Physics Core 6-DoF dynamics, buoyancy, drag, thruster response
Ocean Field Currents, turbidity, terrain, sensor degradation
Robot Interface Control policies, task APIs, batched environments
Evaluation Pipeline Trajectory logs, failure replay, version comparison

Outputs

Parallel Experiments Thousands of reproducible mission runs
Failure Replay Bring real mission conditions back into simulation
Validation Metrics Convergence, stability, robustness, risk boundary

From one missionto thousands of experiments

The same robot model, ocean conditions, and task goals can be run, compared, and replayed repeatedly in the virtual ocean. Validation is no longer limited to a few expensive field opportunities.

Applications

Mission Domains

Focused on the expensive, hard-to-reproduce conditions that slow underwater robotics development.

Autonomous Docking

Validate docking strategies under current, low visibility, and localization error.

Station Keeping

Validate position, attitude, and operational stability in disturbed ocean conditions.

Inspection & Survey

Validate navigation and data collection along pipelines, seabed structures, and complex terrain.

Close-Range Work

Validate approach, obstacle avoidance, pose holding, and manipulator actions near equipment.

Target Search

Validate search and return policies under occlusion, turbidity, and partial observation.

Deployment Replay

Bring failure conditions from real missions back into the virtual ocean for the next iteration.

Build the virtual ocean with us

If you are building underwater robots, autonomy policies, or real-ocean deployment workflows, get in touch.

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