Active Camouflage of Underwater Assets (ACUA)
Abstract
The long-term goals of this research are to develop the control methodology for active cloaking of underwater assets and the initial hardware concepts to test the proposed cloaking approach. This work is a natural extension of ONR Project N00014-02-1-0211 (Optical Variability and Bottom Classification in Turbid Waters: HyMOM Predictions of the Light Field in Ports and Beneath Ship Hulls) where the perceptibility of underwater assets was modeled. The initial objective of this work is to extend the existing 3-D Hybrid Marine Optical Model (HyMOM) (Reinersman and Carder 2004; Carder et al, 2005; Carder and Reinersman, 2007) to determine the three-dimensional light structure of representative marine environments in order to calculate the character of the radiance field needed to remove asset contrast with the background. A secondary objective is to develop a practical method to provide the additional radiance necessary to accomplish this task and to make the asset "self-aware" of its background contrast. Only in this manner will the asset be able to change radiance fields with environmental conditions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA522151
Entities
People
- Kendall L. Carder
- Phillip N. Reinersman
Organizations
- University of South Florida