Hydro-Thermal Vent Mapping with Multiple AUV's AZORES-2001

Abstract

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon (IST) have a long standing memorandum of agreement dating back to 1994 for the exchange of scientific ideas, visits of faculty and students, and to perform collaborative work. In the past we have collaborated on joint papers, the shared supervision of doctoral work, and a shared effort on the evaluation of AUV control system methodology. This is a NICOP project aimed at developing the technology of multiple cooperating AUV's in a shallow water vent-mapping mission. The missions to be conducted in the AZORES Islands will develop multi-vehicle cooperative strategies and control using radio and acoustic communications. Results of both sonar and video images will be obtained in which the Portuguese vehicle INFANTE, and a surface catamaran (DELFIM) will perform broad area survey to identify vent clusters, while the NPS vehicle ARIES, will be used to reacquire vent cluster locations, and perform local area searches with close in video data gathering.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA625481

Entities

People

  • Anthony J. Healey
  • António Pascoal
  • David B. Marco

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Communications
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Catamarans
  • Command And Control
  • Control Systems
  • Depth Control
  • Images
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Shallow Water
  • Sonar
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles
  • Video
  • Video Images
  • Water

Readers

  • Oceanography.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.