Undersea Navigation of a Glider UUV Using an Acoustic Communications Network

Abstract

The US Navy is developing Seaweb undersea acoustic networking technology to enable distributed autonomous ocean sensors. An Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) can operate as a mobile node among the grid in the conduct of its own mission, using the fixed nodes as navigation reference points. The fixed grid provides a cellular communications infrastructure for command & control and data telemetry. In turn, the UUV can support the fixed grid by physically redistributing large quantities of data throughout the network or for breaching the sea surface and acting as a mobile gateway node, communicating via satellite to a command center ashore. Assimilating UUVs as network nodes significantly enhances undersea network

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA439563

Entities

People

  • Sean P. Ouimet

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Communications
  • Acoustic Signals
  • Acoustics
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Command Centers
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Grids
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navigation
  • Range Finding
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Uss Paul Hamilton

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Space