Countermine Operations in Very Shallow Water and Surf Zone: The Role of Bottom Crawlers

Abstract

In littoral warfare, strategic, operational and tactical mobility is an obvious advantage to naval forces that rely on unobstructed sea lanes. Naval mines can diminish or deny this advantage by reducing freedom of maneuverability and preventing naval forces from controlling or shaping the battlefield. In the Surf Zone (SZ) region, small autonomous crawling robots are being developed by the Office of Naval Research to perform mine hunting missions in support of the Mine Countermeasures (MCM) task force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA498893

Entities

People

  • Chuck Bernstein
  • Tony Aponick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Communication Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  • Explosives
  • Instrumentation
  • Munitions
  • Naval Mines
  • Navigation
  • Scanning
  • Shallow Water
  • Sonar
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Water

Readers

  • Marine Ecological Systems Migration
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs