# \[UUV Simulator\] Bringing the community together

**URL:** <https://forum.oceansoft.org/t/uuv-simulator-bringing-the-community-together/54>\
**Category:** Simulation\
**Created:** [September 21, 2026, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.oceansoft.org/t/uuv-simulator-bringing-the-community-together/54 "2026-09-21T10:05:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![achille\_martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@achille\_martin](https://forum.oceansoft.org/u/achille_martin)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.oceansoft.org/t/uuv-simulator-bringing-the-community-together/54/1 "2026-09-21T10:05:22Z")

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Hi everyone,

I am attempting to bring the UUV Simulator fans (and developers) together.

Feel free to discuss implementation issues, new features, upgrades to other simulators and anything UUV Simulator-related.

Originally, there was a Discord set up for UUV Simulator discussions ( [uuv\_simulator](https://discord.gg/zNauF2F) ) but they easily get lost there and are unsearchable. This forum seems to be a better place for all these discussions.

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**Author:** ![toby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/user_avatar/forum.oceansoft.org/toby/32/8_2.png) [@toby](https://forum.oceansoft.org/u/toby)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.oceansoft.org/t/uuv-simulator-bringing-the-community-together/54/2 "2026-09-27T01:48:23Z")

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Hi -

Great timing. We just had a workshop at OCEANS 26 Monterey, headed up by Brian Bingham and colleagues: [https://oceansim.bbingham.dev/](https://oceansim.bbingham.dev/)

Brian is planning to post outcomes from this workshop soon, but one of the main takeaways is that Open Ocean Software is hoping to support efforts to standardize interconnection between simulators (servers) and autonomy systems under test (clients), in an analogous way that [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/getting-started/intro) has been hugely useful for connecting LLM agents to a wide range of data sources.

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**Author:** ![achille\_martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@achille\_martin](https://forum.oceansoft.org/u/achille_martin)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.oceansoft.org/t/uuv-simulator-bringing-the-community-together/54/3 "2026-09-27T11:51:49Z")

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Excellent, that is something we have been trying to look at at the National Oceanography Centre.

We want to be able to use any simulator technology that fits our needs (graphics requirement, processing, multi-vehicle, dynamics,…) while keeping the same platform (vehicle) connected.

Pretty large undertaking, especially if we want to provide tools to benchmark the simulators!