Autonomous Wide Aperture Cluster for Surveillance (AWACS)

Abstract

A five year effort led by the Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems (OASIS), Inc., AWACS is a multi-disciplined team effort comprised of a number of collaborating academic and scientific institutions, fleet operation support communities and manufacturers of ocean sensors and platforms. The long-term goal of the AWACS program has been to develop an undersea surveillance system consisting of a cluster of autonomous vehicles for use in complex littoral shallow water environments. The vehicles will be capable of sampling oceanographic, bottom and acoustic features in a local environment and, as a networked cluster, will collectively feed adaptive sampling and search algorithms leading to improved detection, classification and localization (DCL) of quiet targets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA533981

Entities

People

  • John E. Joseph

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Algorithms
  • Ambient Noise
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Sampling
  • Shallow Water
  • Surveillance
  • Transmission Loss
  • Undersea Surveillance
  • Vehicles
  • Water

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - UAVs