Making Underwater Gliders Useful to Navy Operations

Abstract

The investigators goal is to develop the capabilities of autonomous underwater gliders to be maintained and piloted at sea for periods of several months and to exploit this capability to address fundamental questions in ocean science. Underwater gliders are progressing from a developing technology to an operational tool. A major challenge now is to determine what tasks gliders are most suited to perform, a determination that is important to naval operation and to research application. Our objective is to quantify the capabilities of the Spray underwater glider in the field in both Navy and research applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA605134

Entities

People

  • Daniel L. Rudnick
  • Russ E. Davis

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Control Systems
  • Deployment
  • Diving
  • Diving Equipment
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Oceanography
  • Recovery Vehicles
  • Underwater Gliders
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy