A LOCAL man recently received an honorary fellowship in recognition for his valuable support to the Society for Underwater Technology.

At the annual general meeting for the society, held at Trinity House, London, Professor Robert Sutton who lives in Gunnislake, was presented with his certificate by Dr David Kirkley, president elect for the society.

For many years, Robert had served on the underwater robotics committee, publications advisory panel and publications committee, in addition to organising several international conferences on unmanned underwater technology on its behalf.

Robert is currently an emeritus professor of control systems engineering at Plymouth University and works within the autonomous marine systems research group on the design and development of navigation, guidance and control systems for unmanned marine vehicles using artificial intelligence and advanced control engineering theory.