UUV Teams For Deep Water Operations

Abstract

This paper presents the Unmanned Underwater Vessel (UUV) team concept, and discusses the goals of a new research effort at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop the technologies required to implement this concept. The UUV team concept is essential to rapid and covert near-shore military operations where a communication and navigation infrastructure is not available. The UUV team concept also has the potential for lowering the cost of deepwater commercial operations and could eliminate the need for tethered vessels in some scenarios.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 11, 2001
Accession Number
ADA400686

Entities

People

  • Brian S. Bourgeois
  • Patrick M. Mcdowell

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustic Communications
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Communication Systems
  • Deep Water
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Military Operations
  • Military Research
  • Navigation
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Seabed
  • Task Forces
  • Underwater Communications
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Water

Readers

  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy