Modeling Improved Parameterizations of Shallow Water Ocean Physics into Simulation Models for AUVs

Abstract

LONG-TERM GOALS: To improve AUV mission effectiveness, and the quality of AUV-based scientific research, by quantifying important ambient process contributors to platform noise, drag, and instabilities. OBJECTIVES: (1) To quantify AUV response to water column dynamics through spectral and temporal analysis, with particular attention to (a) swell and surface waves, (2) solitons and internal waves, and (3) currents with transverse components. (2) To provide predictive dynamic models for important processes and platform interactions. Also, To provide detailed suggestions for improvement in vehicle design for platform quietness, stability, improved endurance, controller design/optimization, and interactive intelligent response to ambient processes in the littoral ocean.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA612403

Entities

People

  • Edward R. Levine
  • Louis Goodman

Organizations

  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Bays
  • Buzzards Bay
  • Displacement
  • Frequency
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Measurement
  • Shallow Water
  • Simulations
  • Spectra
  • Surface Waves
  • Turbulence
  • Undersea Warfare
  • Water
  • Waves

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.