High Bandwidth Communications for VSWMCM Operations

Abstract

A preliminary objective for FY 2007 was to implement a wireless communications architecture for networking autonomous underwater, surface, and aerial vehicles under the concept of operations described above. This allowed us to complete our primary objective: conducting field experiments to measure the received signal strength of the wireless links sensed by each network node. This experimental data represents the real-time sensory inputs to the guidance algorithms under development. It will be used to characterize the RF field around wireless nodes in the network, and support modeling, simulation, and testing of the algorithms before implementing them on a UAV. Our secondary objective for FY 2007 was to demonstrate this concept of operations on fleet-representative vehicles with the ScanEagle UAV and SeaFox USV at AUV Fest 2007.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA484899

Entities

People

  • A. Monarrez
  • Anthony J. Healey
  • B. D. Wring
  • D. P. Horner
  • S. P. Kragelund

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Bandwidth
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Ground Vehicles
  • High Bandwidth Communications
  • Information Operations
  • Mesh Networks
  • Radio Equipment
  • Throughput
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.