Antonelli, GianlucaCaffaz, AndreaCasalino, GiuseppeVolpi, Nicola Catenaccide Jong, Ivan BielicDe Palma, DanielaDuarte, HenriqueGrimsdale, JonathanIndiveri, GiovanniJesus, S. M.Kebkal, KonstantinPascoal, AntonioPolani, DanielPollini, Lorenzo2017-04-072017-04-072016978-1-4673-9724-70197-7385AUT: SJE00662;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/9708The Widely scalable Mobile Underwater Sonar Technology (WiMUST) project aims at developing a system of cooperative Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for geotechnical surveying and geophysical exploration. The paper reports about the first year activities and it gives an overview of the main objectives and methods. Results relative to distributed sensor array, cooperative control, mission planning, communications and preliminary experiments are summarized.engjournal article